yelp

[Yelp]

A yelp is a loud cry of pain, like what you’d hear after you step on a dog’s tail by accident. It was an accident, right?

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To boast.

Noun
a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)

Verb
bark in a high-pitched tone; "the puppies yelped"


v. i.
To boast.

v. i.
To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.

n.
A sharp, quick cry; a bark.


Yelp

Yelp , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yelped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Yelping.] [OE. yelpen, elpen, to boast, boast noisily, AS. gielpan, gilpan, gylpan; akin to OHG. gelph arrogant: cf. Icel. gj'belpa to yelp. Cf. Yap.] 1. To boast. [Obs.]
I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe.
2. 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.

Yelp

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

To boast.

A sharp, quick cry; a bark.

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