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/jˈɛlpɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Yelp v. i. (past & past part. yelped; pres. part. yelping)

To boast. (Obs.) "I keep (care) not of armes for to yelpe."

To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup. "A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs?" "At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation."

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"Yelping" Quotes from Famous Books

... going to speak," Jack said. "Mother found it out, and said she'd tell 'ee o't; but the last two nights I were well nigh yelping ...

— Facing Death - The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines • G. A. Henty

... those who can stop dog-fights and those who cannot. The young man in grey belonged to the former class. Within a minute from his entrance on the scene the poodles and the Irish terrier had vanished; the dog of doubtful breed was moving off up the hill, yelping, with the dispatch of one who remembers an important appointment, and Bill, miraculously calmed, was seated in the centre of the ...

— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... declined his kindness for the present, as I told him casually of the dog whose midnight barking was killing me. He called again on Thursday morning. The barking had ceased. He inquired if I had been troubled with the yelping of that senseless cur, and I answered truly that I had not, that I had slept soundly, and woke with a softened pulse and a ...

— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond

... with a broad verandah, surrounded with plantations, and a garden of fruit-trees on the gentle slope of a hill. As we got near, a shout from the master brought out several black boys, accompanied by a number of barking dogs, who welcomed us by leaping round the horses' heads, and yelping and ...

— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston

... defiant attitude and seemed inclined to make his way through any number of enemies, the trio held a consultation, which, I am bound to say, almost invariably resulted in a fight. The intruder would either fly yelping, or would work his way across the interdicted territory by means of a series of encounters, accompanied by the most terrific barking, snapping and shrieking, and by a very considerable effusion of blood. The person ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various

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