yip

See also: Yip

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jɪp/
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

yip (plural yips)

  1. a sharp, high-pitched bark
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
      I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.

Translations

Verb

yip (third-person singular simple present yips, present participle yipping, simple past and past participle yipped)

  1. to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice

Translations
sound a small dog makes

Anagrams

Boghom

Noun

yip

  1. water

References
  • John D. Bengtson, In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory (2008, →ISBN

Kir-Balar

Noun

yip

  1. water

References
  • Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38
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