yarl
Appearance
See also: Yarl
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Presumably onomatopoeic. Coined by Josh Sinder and Alex Sibbald of the band Hot Rod Lunatics.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yarl (plural yarls)
- A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.
- 2002 January 9, Patrick Berkery, “Record Review - 1 January 09 2002”, in Creative Loafing[1], Atlanta:
- So pontificating on how Weathered's earnest morass of block-headed rage, grunge-lite mega-riffs and singer Scott Stapp's machismo yarl amounts to little more than Pearl Jam circa '91 for dummies is like shooting fish in a barrel.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yarl.
Verb
[edit]yarl (third-person singular simple present yarls, present participle yarling, simple past and past participle yarled)
- To sing in this manner.
- 2009 October 21, Andrew Matson, “Is there any reason to listen to the new Alice in Chains album, "Black Gives Way to Blue"?”, in The Seattle Times:
- On "All Secrets Known," he yarls "fingers" into "fingerrrrrrrraaaaaaughhhhhzzzzzzz."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yarl.
References
[edit]- ^ Jack Endino, "Verb of the Month: 'To Yarl'", Backfire, Summer 2000 issue