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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

... habits, says that this wise little Westerner, when perched on the hillocks which we have already described, is able to survey a wide extent of territory and as soon as he sees a visitor, he gives a loud yelp of alarm, and dives into his burrow, his tiny feet knocking together with a ludicrous flourish as he disappears. In every direction similar scenes are enacted. The warning cry has been heard, and immediately every dog within a hundred yards repeats the cry and leaps into his burrow. ...

— The Human Side of Animals • Royal Dixon

... tried to get his teeth into Bob's ankle. When Bob tried to kick him away, of course the Indians and cowboys yelled harder than ever. The dog stumbled and fell across the electric wire—gave one wild yelp of pain—and lay there kicking and struggling, unable to jerk himself loose. Worst of all, he had landed in a puddle of water, so that the electric current was pouring straight through his twitching body into ...

— Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts • Roy Rutherford Bailey

... quietly. But they had only groped a little distance when Jim Gryce set up a sharp yelp ...

— The Young Mountaineers - Short Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock

... out, with an oath. "What do you mean? I've borrowed about twenty thousand dollars. Now yelp! Eh? What?—no yelps? Probably some weeps, then. Turn 'em on and run dry; I'll wait." And he managed to cross one bulky leg over the other and lean back, affecting resignation, while Leila, bolt upright in her low chair, every curved outline rigid under the flowing, ...

— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers

... delight frantically. The big mastiff stopped and nosed his sympathy through the fence for a moment and walked slowly on, Satan frisking and barking along inside. At the gate Hugo stopped, and raising one huge paw, playfully struck it. The gate flew open, and with a happy yelp Satan leaped into the street. The noble mastiff hesitated as though this were not quite regular. He did not belong to the club, and he didn't know that Satan had ever been away from home after dark in his life. For a moment he seemed to wait for Dinnie to call him ...

— Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories • John Fox, Jr.

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