'Yelping' definitions:

Definition of 'yelping'

(from WordNet)
noun
A sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) [syn: yip, yelp, yelping]

Definition of 'Yelping'

From: GCIDE
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To boast. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup. [1913 Webster]
  • A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]

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