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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yelp \Yelp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Yelped}; p. pr & vb n.
{Yelping}.] [OE. yelpen, [yogh]elpen, to boast, boast
noisily, AS gielpan gilpan, gylpan akin to OHG. gelph
arrogant: cf Icel. gj[=a]lpa to yelp. Cf {Yap}.]
1. To boast. [Obs.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
yelping
n : a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) [syn: {yelp}]
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