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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

... fastened firmly to a sled, where he usually revenged himself by howling dismally at intervals. But he was a capital leader and as steady as a rock, excepting when the team, at the sight of a distant object on the snow, would give one piercing yelp of joy, and bolt towards it at breakneck speed, utterly regardless of the brake or curses of the driver. I am bound to say that on these occasions Tchort was the most unruly ...

— From Paris to New York by Land • Harry de Windt

... "Suppose you call him through the telephone." Accordingly the dog was lifted up and the ear-piece placed at its ear. "Jack! Jack!" shouted its owner, whereupon Jack, recognising the voice, began at once to yelp most vigorously, and licked the telephone in a friendly way, evidently thinking that its master ...

— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various

... thing in his brain which did it, Mrs. Peterson," Betty explained. "Mr. David acted queer sometimes, though he never hollered out. It must be something great, Captain," she added, "which made you yelp like that." ...

— Under Sealed Orders • H. A. Cody

... two long minutes, when a low yelp from a distant part of the field, then a loud "bow-wow" from the Hound, set Yan's ...

— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton

... me that it holds me trembling throughout its long cry. Then other voices answer from the depths of the ruins, voices very diverse, but all sinister. Some are only able to mew on two long-drawn notes: some yelp like jackals round a cemetery, and others again imitate the sound of a steel spring slowly unwinding itself. And this concert comes always from above. Owls, ospreys, screech-owls, all the different kinds of birds, with hooked ...

— Egypt (La Mort De Philae) • Pierre Loti

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