Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To utter a short, sharp bark or cry: excited dogs yelping; yelped in pain when the bee stung.
- v. To utter by yelping.
- n. A short, sharp cry or bark.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To boast; cry up a thing; exult; brag.
- To give a sharp, shrill, quick cry, resembling a bark; bark sharply and shrilly; yawp: said of dogs, and also of some other creatures, especially a wild turkey-hen.
- n. A boast; boasting.
- n. An eager bark or cry; a sharp, quick bark or cry caused by fear or pain.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To boast.
- v. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
- n. A sharp, quick cry; a bark.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)
- v. bark in a high-pitched tone
Etymologies
- Old English ġielpan. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English yelpen, to cry aloud, from Old English gelpan, gielpan, to boast; see ghel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“When ABC's audio picked up a standard "get in the hole" yelp from a fan in the gallery, Alliss responded immediately — "Oh, shut up!”
“A piteous yelp from the lower regions at last announced that the thief was captured, and Tom appeared bearing Snip by the nape of the neck in one hand and Polly's cherished bonnet in the other.”
“Link so, i got this interesting bit of information from someone who worked for yelp: yelp is very agresssive in selling ads, the so called “sponsored results” to businesses which are being reviewed on yelp. when a business signs up for “sponsored results” (several k$), bad reviews then will be hidden. that means anytime the business stops taking out those ads, the bad reviews which remained hidden during the “sponsored results” run, pop up again. as a result, yelp is not at all a neutral review site. that entire idea is skewed! yelp can be helpful, but take it with a grain of salt or two. and be suspicious of “sponsored results” …. — bmwcafe”
“-- "The yelp is a basic turkey sound, delivered in a series of single note vocalizations and can have different meanings depending on how the hen intends.”
“It is critical to set up a profile on Yelp and encourage happy customers to 'yelp' about your business.”
The Huffington Post: Alistair Goodman: How Location-Based Services Can Boost Your Small Business
“Mr Gibson's who suffers from arthritis was accused by PC Steven Cole of twisting his thumb so hard during the arrest it made him "yelp”
“I've hear them chatter, but I never heard that kind of yelp!”
“I jammed my left hand deep into his crotch which made him kinda "yelp" a bit like a bad puppy.”
“He gave a kind of yelp, and Goon and the Chief turned in surprise.”
“He gave a kind of yelp, stared at me for a moment, and then began to talk of New York in a way that reminded me of Jimmy Mundy, the reformer chappie.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yelp’.
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
money cowrie, bedraggle, omphalos, ineluctable, postprandial, bladderwrack, modality barnacle..., loofah, shipworm, cither, embattle, Malachi and 503 more...
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Talk Talk
Words for Talking
( open list, randomness )squawk, gab, chatter, chitchat, blab, prattle, blather, discuss, hector, plead, cajole, harangue and 200 more...
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SMILE and other emotive verbs
Single verbs that describe expression or emotional reaction. "He __ed" (smiled/gulped/scoffed...)
smile, beam, sneer, scoff, giggle, laugh, snigger, scowl, grin, leer, wince, grimace and 97 more...
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El perro hace guau guau
Animal sounds in different languages, and the verbs that specify them.
Since Georgetown took down their page, the current definitive website for this information is:
Abbott ani...øf-øf, knor knor, groin groin, grunz, röf-röf, boo boo, hrgu hrgu, nöff-nöff, oink-oink, zumbar, ulular, rebuznar and 154 more...
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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Some Wednesday words
Just another arbitrary list of words that come up for me today, June 20 2007
tutelage, hobby horse, abracadabra, occipital, martinet, margarita, persona, cute, sharp, acute, confabulate, conspire and 97 more...
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alternatives to say (to reveal charac...
for the character building workshop in 3 ESO
babble, bark, blurt, bellow, brag, chortle, chuckle, groan, grumble, gasp, growl, gabble and 29 more...
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animal sound verbs
limited to non-onomatopoeic words
chitter, gibber, hum, buzz, chirrup, mew, whistle, boom, bellow, caterwaul, fink, low and 49 more...
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Poetrie: Custard the Dragon
The Tale of Custard the Dragon
By Ogden Nash
(as per uselessness's poetrie)
Belinda lived in a little white house,
With a little black kitten and a little gra...pyrate, gyrate, gobbled, flagon, grog, squirm, jangling, mouseholed, trickled, yelp, winda, week and 9 more...
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trombrarian's Words
buttress, yawp, ajar, tawdry, tornadic, tacitly, murfle, winkapeep, eager, radial, mnemonic, eccentric and 47 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for yelp.
PossibleUnderscore *Yelp* Feb 14, 2010
reesetee Yep. Feb 14, 2010
bilby yeck. Feb 12, 2010
brainstem How progressive is this site intended to be? Anyway, yelp has taken on a verb sense - to write reviews for the website yelp.com Feb 12, 2010