yip

[ yip ]

/ yɪp /

to bark sharply, as a young dog.

a sharp bark; yelp.

Nearby words

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

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Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.
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Rosete was totally oblivious to the way on-screen fighting worked prior to studying with Yip.
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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
Staring into the bushes without a yip, she appeared to be bearing these slurs and innuendos of mine with an easy calm.
Right Ho, Jeeves|P. G. Wodehouse

And Weary sneaked in, too, and never let a yip outa him about things over in Denson coulee.
Flying U Ranch|B. M. Bower
Here in the Yip Country he had become the most important creature of them all and his importance was getting to be a little tame.
The Lost Princess of Oz|L. Frank Baum
A brindle bulldog, which Carl had not seen until that moment, gave a yip and started for the scene of the trouble.
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1903, possibly from dialectal yip "to cheep like a bird" (early 19c.), from Middle English yippen (mid-15c.), of imitative origin.