yip
- to bark sharply, as a young dog.
- a sharp bark; yelp.
Origin of yip
Related Words for yip
squawk, yelp, wail, screech, hoot, whoop, shriek, howl, squeal, moan, growl, groan, roar, whimper, outcry, blare, shout, holler, yell, cryExamples 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.
Rosete was totally oblivious to the way on-screen fighting worked prior to studying with Yip.
Historical Examples of yip
Clear and gay above the yelling of Bolsheviki and the “Yip––yip!”
The Crimson TideRobert W. Chambers
I'll bet my shirt that we don't hear a yip out of them before we touch 'em off.
Skylark ThreeEdward 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 SlopeJames Otis
"Nary move nor yip," he whispered confidentially into the night.
Desert ConquestA. M. Chisholm
If I say that I'm going to the Clubhouse, she never raises a yip.
Angel IslandInez 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.