Yelp

Definition of Yelp

v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Yelped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Yelping.]
	1.	To boast. I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. - Chaucer.
	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? - Shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. - W. Irving.
n.	1.	A sharp, quick cry; a bark.

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