yelp
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
Definition of yelp
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
“The puppy let out a yelp when I stepped on her tail.”
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noun
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An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
“The puppy let out a yelp when I stepped on her tail.”
- A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail.
verb
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To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.
“The children yelped with delight as they played in the cold water.”
“I followed it as well as I could, I who have so often boasted of my memory now sniffing along for what seemed a league at least like a brachet and ready almost to yelp for joy at the thought of a place I knew, after so much emptiness, silence, and blackness.”
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Etymology
From Middle English ȝelp, yelp, from Old English ġielp (“boasting, arrogance, pride”), from Proto-West Germanic *gelp, from Proto-Germanic *gelpą (“boasting”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout”).
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