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noun

Yelp n. A sharp, quick cry; a bark.

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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"Yelp" Quotes from Famous Books

... and I counted as many as eighty mourners on 'em at one time. The most of 'em was settun' under Elder Grove, and he was poundun' the kingdom into 'em good and strong. When the Spirit took him he roared so that he had the Hounds just flaxed out; you couldn't ketch a yelp from 'em." ...

— The Leatherwood God • William Dean Howells

... fastidious about the kind of liquor, it was the effect that was desired. One afternoon, a day or two after we arrived at Helena, Arkansas, a sudden yell, a sort of "ki-yip!" was heard issuing from one of the company tents, soon followed by others of the same tone. I had heard that peculiar yelp before, and knew what it meant. Presently I sauntered down to the tent from whence the sounds issued, and walked in. Several of the boys were seated around, in an exalted state of vociferous hilarity, and a flat, pint bottle, with the figure of a green ...

— The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 • Leander Stillwell

... a wild yelp from Puck as he gripped the rabbit, and both tumbled over the bank of the river into the water, which was previously concealed from view; the dog's bark being echoed immediately afterwards by a cry of alarm from ...

— Teddy - The Story of a Little Pickle • J. C. Hutcheson

... beheld nothing but a shelving rock, from under which a spring of clear smoking water flowed, and a large bank of snow which had drifted around it, but through which the gurgling stream had forced its way. Yet the mystery was not solved. Ringwood and Jowler continued to growl and yelp still more furiously, running round the embankment of snow repeatedly, and ever and anon snuffing its ...

— Wild Western Scenes • John Beauchamp Jones

... we knew not whither. We had not yet recovered courage enough to take more steps than were necessary to come to each other; and, while we were considering, during an intermitting pause of the roaring of the wind, we distinctly heard a cur yelp. ...

— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft

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