Yarrow

Achillea millefolium. A pretty wildflower with garden varieties often used for its medicinal properties.

In the ancient divination I Ching, people traditionally threw the dried long stalks of the Yarrow flower instead of coins.

Sometimes used instead of hops in the Middle Ages to brew! Yum.

the sea-side is covered in beautiful yarrow and sea grasses.

by beautyinreality February 3, 2010

yarr!

A general pirate exclamation that can mean nearly anything from pain to pride.

More recently used by particularly salty sailors.

Often incorrectly pronounced 'arr'

1.Captain: Yarr! Let's raid those lubbers!
Crew: YARR!!

2. Yarr! Where's me hook?

by Corsair Sailor October 3, 2007

yarrr

Noncommittal interjection favored by pirates (and their admirers) as a response to statements unlikely to produce a reasoned discussion. Useful while interacting with the ill-informed, tendentious, deliberately obtuse, and the simply boring. Because of its phonic similarity to “yes”, “yeah”, it has the virtue of being misunderstood as an expression of agreement. This helps the bag-o-wind feel that their statement has been adequately received thereby allowing them to produce more statements that are devoid of intellectual worth but still entertaining.

“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
“yarrr.”

“The buck stops with everybody.”
“yarrr.”

by Yo.ho.ho June 1, 2020

yarr

An interjection. Can be used in nearly any sense, to convey any manner of emotion or simply waste breath and fill up blank space in a conversation. Derives its origin from the 'yarr' used by pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy during the 1500s to 1700s and appropriated from there.

Yarr.

"How are you feeling?"
"Yarr."

And so I went up to this dude and he was totally like "Yarr."

by Caliban September 6, 2002

Yarp

Derivative of yup, usually said rather quickly.

"Hey, you goin' to the mall?"
"Yarp!"

by Cool Breeze June 19, 2003

YARR

A pirate saying used in ancient times that could interpret to almost anything today.

I'm going to kill you and rape your wenches. This is some good grog. My parrot just died. The last time we tried that the ship caught on fire. etc.

by Jon February 7, 2004

Yerrp

(ye-er-p)

Can be written with any amount of R's or P's.

Is another word for Yes, or Yea, used for spontaneousness to liven up a conversation more than a typical Yea.

Yerrp..

by OmarRamo March 18, 2011