Found 3 hits - Term: yelping, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
yelp \yelp\, v. i. imp. p. p. yelped; p. pr. vb. n.
yelping. oe. yelpen, yoghelpen, to boast, boast
noisily, as. gielpan, gilpan, gylpan; akin to ohg. gelph
arrogant: cf. icel. gj=alpa to yelp. cf. yap.
1913 webster
1. to boast. obs.
1913 webster
i keep care not of armes for to yelpe. --chaucer.
1913 webster
2. to utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly
with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
1913 webster
a little herd of england's timorous deer,
mazed with a yelping kennel of french curs? --shak.
1913 webster
at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he
would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation.
--w. irving.
1913 webster
see also:
yelped yelping yap
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
yelping
n : a sharp high-pitched cry especially by a dog syn: yelp
see also:
yelp
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
19 moby thesaurus words for "yelping":
bawling, blatant, boanergean, brawling, clamorous, clamoursome,
crying, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, screaming,
shouting, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, yammering, yapping,
yelling
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