yap

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A yip or a yap, a whine or a woof -- if you don't want a barking dog, consider a basenji.

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  1. intransitive verb To bark sharply or shrilly; yelp.
  2. intransitive verb Slang To talk noisily or stupidly; jabber.
  3. transitive verb To utter by yapping.
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  • Yap, yap, yap, all the way from Baggage Claim to the minute we pulled up in front of the big house. —  F ;SF - vol 102 issue 04 - April 2002
  • Like to bark all the time -- yap, yap, yap -- nearly drove me out my skull No," she said, "he didn't What He didn't bark. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 05 - May 1997
  • He felt like a mechanical toy dog that took two steps, went yap-yap and took two more steps. —  Analog April, 1971
  • And she hated that barking white dog of a Richard, with his yap-yap-yapping about control and authority and the hand of the Lord. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • A yip or a yap, a whine or a woof -- if you don't want a barking dog, consider a basenji. —  HowStuffWorks Daily Feed
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably imitative.

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  1. Prob. imitative. Cf. yaff, waff, and yaup.
  2. from yap, v.
 

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