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yelping

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yelp  (ylp)
v. yelped, yelp·ing, yelps
v.intr.
To utter a short, sharp bark or cry: excited dogs yelping; yelped in pain when the bee stung.
v.tr.
To utter by yelping.
n.
A short, sharp cry or bark.

[Middle English yelpen, to cry aloud, from Old English gelpan, gielpan, to boast; see ghel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

yelper n.
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Noun1.yelping - a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)
cry - the characteristic utterance of an animal; "animal cries filled the night"
Translations
yelping [ˈjelpɪŋ] N [of animal] → gañidos mpl; [of person] → gritos mpl, chillidos mpl
yelping
n (of animal)Jaulen nt; (of person)Aufschreien nt
yelping [ˈjɛlpɪŋ]
1. adj (dog) → che guaisce
2. nguaiti mpl

yelping [ˈjɛlpɪŋ]
1. adj (dog) → che guaisce
2. nguaiti mpl


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This Kit is one of your honest people; one of your fair characters; a prowling prying hound; a hypocrite; a double- faced, white- livered, sneaking spy; a crouching cur to those that feed and coax him, and a barking yelping dog to all besides.
(I was distracted now by the yelping of a number of dogs.
He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain.
 
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