yip

[yip]

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verb (used without object), yipped, yip·ping.

to bark sharply, as a young dog.

noun

a sharp bark; yelp.

Origin of yip

1400–50; late Middle English yippe, perhaps alteration of yilpe yelp

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Related Words for yip

squawk, yelp, wail, screech, hoot, whoop, shriek, howl, squeal, moan, growl, groan, roar, whimper, outcry, blare, shout, holler, yell, cry

Examples from the Web for yip

Contemporary Examples of yip

Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.
When Broadway Musicals Were Dark And Subversive
Laurence Maslon
December 16, 2014
Rosete was totally oblivious to the way on-screen fighting worked prior to studying with Yip.
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Anna Brand
December 27, 2013

Historical Examples of yip

Clear and gay above the yelling of Bolsheviki and the “Yip––yip!”
The Crimson Tide
Robert W. Chambers
I'll bet my shirt that we don't hear a yip out of them before we touch 'em off.
Skylark Three
Edward Elmer Smith
It'll take us about two minutes to clean you out, an' we'll do it, if you so much as yip again.
Down the Slope
James Otis
"Nary move nor yip," he whispered confidentially into the night.
Desert Conquest
A. M. Chisholm
If I say that I'm going to the Clubhouse, she never raises a yip.
Angel Island
Inez Haynes Gillmore

Word Origin and History for yip

1903, possibly from dialectal yip "to cheep like a bird" (early 19c.), from Middle English yippen (mid-15c.), of imitative origin.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper