whelp
noun
the young of a carnivore, as a dog, bear, lion, seal, etc.
Example Sentences
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Kruse now transfers his pregnant dogs to Lichirie, who whelps the puppies and raises them until they’re weaned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
James Franco has taken Cormac McCarthy’s stylistic prose and replaced it with grunts, whelps and whinnies.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2014
He refers to them, as if they were abused whelps, as “members of our litter.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2013
You can't close them fast enough, and eventually the screen whelps itself into incoherence.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2011
His heart cried out within him the way a brach with whelps between her legs would howl and bristle at a stranger—so the hackles of his heart rose at that laughter.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
