Category:Yelp

Yelp, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yelped; p. pr. & vb. n. Yelping.] Etym: [oe. yelpen,, to boast, boast noisily, as. gielpan, gilpan, gylpan; Akin to ohg. gelph arrogant: cf. Icel. gjalpa to yelp. Cf. Yap.]

1. To boast. [obs.] I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. Chaucer.

2. 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 shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the Door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.

Yelp Yelp, n.

Defn: a sharp, quick cry; a bark. Chaucer.