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yelping
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Yelping
(gcide) | Yelp \Yelp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yelped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Yelping.] [OE. yelpen, [yogh]elpen, to boast, boast
noisily, AS. gielpan, gilpan, gylpan; akin to OHG. gelph
arrogant: cf. Icel. gj[=a]lpa to yelp. Cf. Yap.]
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1. To boast. [Obs.]
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I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. --Chaucer.
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2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly
with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
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A little herd of England's timorous deer,
Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs? --Shak.
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At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he
would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation.
--W. Irving.
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yelping
(wn) | yelping
n 1: a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) [syn: yip,
yelp, yelping] |
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