Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sharp, high-pitched bark; a yelp.
- v. To emit a yip; yelp.
Wiktionary
- n. A sharp, high-pitched bark.
- n. A self-fulfilling defeatist or fatalist mindset.
- v. To bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)
- v. bark in a high-pitched tone
Etymologies
- Perhaps Middle English yippe, a cheeping sound, from yippen, to cheep, of imitative origin.
Examples
“The creature in which they have the greatest faith is the bun-yip, which is supposed to haunt rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water, and possesses remarkable powers.”
The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
“There was no contact and Edwards looks at the ball in the whole way, and I think you're supposed to look the ball into your hands, but there was a very slight, last second "yip" he makes with his head.”
“They remind me of a pack of feral, ankle-biter dogs led by the ones that yip the loudest.”
“Prairie dogs, members of the squirrel family that yip and yap like dogs, are typically too aggressive to make good pets.”
The Wall Street Journal: Search to Find New Digs for Prairie Dogs Slows
“Nice one, top class, yip every trace leads back to Gordon Brown.”
“Don't know what to do about the barking problem (when Yaqui and the neighbors get into too intense a conversation, she has to go to the back roof, where all she still finds the occasional wandering cat which is at least worth a yip).”
“SAGAL: You were training her little Corgies not to yip?”
“We went upstairs and pounded on 4D, as the rummy said, but only a dog answered with yip and howl.”
“She uttered a yip, and Rebecca looked up at her, then followed her gaze across the room.”
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
“So when Victor questions me I just smile and nod, put the van in reverse, release the brake, hear a sharp yip, sense the wheels clearing a small bump, and run over a dog.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yip’.
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Of Imitative Origin
Words formed in imitation of the sound of the things they signify.
bawl, biff, blizzard, blob, blooper, bob, boff, bomb, bonkers, boo, borborygmus, brouhaha and 148 more...
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Talk Talk
Words for Talking
squawk, gab, chatter, chitchat, blab, prattle, blather, discuss, hector, plead, cajole, harangue and 189 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plain hilarious
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 241 more...
reesetee Hmm. Not sure I want to know. But apparently, sled dogs have single yips. :-)
Hey, trivet has a list for the yips! Off I go.... Oct 13, 2007
yarb I've heard of golfers having plural of these, but could anyone else have the yips? I'm an accountant: could I say "sorry for screwing up that balance sheet, boss, I just had the yips"?
And what about a single yip? Could John "Wild Thing" Daly fluff a simple putt due to a sudden yip? What would that look like? Oct 13, 2007