01 v. i. To boast.
imp. & p. p.
Yelped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Yelping
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1.
To boast.[Obs.]“I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe.” — Chaucer.
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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.