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yelp
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j?lp/
- Rhymes: -?lp
Etymology 1
From Middle English ?elp, yelp, from Old English ?ielp (“boasting, arrogance, pride”), from Proto-Germanic *gelp? (“boasting”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?el- (“to shout”).
Noun
yelp (plural yelps)
- An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
- The puppy let out a yelp when I stepped on her tail.
- A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English ?elpen, yelpen, from Old English ?ielpan (“to boast”), from Proto-Germanic *gelpan?. Compare Saterland Frisian jalpe (“to bleep; cheep”).
Verb
yelp (third-person singular simple present yelps, present participle yelping, simple past and past participle yelped)
- To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.
- The children yelped with delight as they played in the cold water.
Translations
Anagrams
- Pyle
Middle English
Noun
yelp
- Alternative form of ?elp
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yap
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jæp/
Noun
yap (countable and uncountable, plural yaps)
- (countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
- (uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter.
- 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59:
- Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 190:
- They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”
- 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59:
- (countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.
- (countable, Tyneside) A badly behaved child; a brat.
Translations
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
Verb
yap (third-person singular simple present yaps, present participle yapping, simple past and past participle yapped)
- (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
- (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
- (transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).
Translations
Anagrams
- APY, Pay, pay, pya
Catawba
Noun
yap
- tree; wood
Usage notes
The word is also represented ya, yop, ya’p, yo’p.
Descendants
- English: yaupon
Finnish
Noun
yap
- Yapese (Austronesian language spoken in the Federated States of Micronesia, especially by the inhabitants of Yap)
Declension
Synonyms
- yapin kieli
Lashi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jap/
Verb
yap
- to stand
References
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Pnar
Etymology
From Proto-Khasian *ja:p. Cognate with Khasi ïap.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jap/
Verb
yap
- to die
Turkish
Verb
yap
- second-person singular imperative of yapmak
Antonyms
- yapma
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