Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of whelp.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word whelped.

Examples

  • Obama will counter by asking our nation to birth a generation that's actually whelped by tigers.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • Obama will counter by asking our nation to birth a generation that's actually whelped by tigers.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • Having been bred by a trader, they were already broken to the pack and had been living with discipline from the day they were whelped.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Registered German Shorthaired Pointer siblings whelped 3-25-08.

    Field & Stream 2009

  • Having been bred by a trader, they were already broken to the pack and had been living with discipline from the day they were whelped.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • I, who was whelped under farmhouse stairs, who prowled the chicken house as a puppy and stuck my nose in every hole around their feed, recognized the odor of a rat.

    Revolutionaries 2010

  • The younger wolves were not bound di - I rectly by it, because they had been whelped after it, but their sires and bitches had impressed the situation on them.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Perhaps mainstream America would be happier if couples that can form unions but not marry would have children that are "birthed," or "whelped" or "emerge."

    David Goldstein: Inglorious Bastards 2009

  • Clinton is a Goldwater Gal whelped at the breast of Milton Friedman ...

    South Carolina Legislator Switches From Obama To Hillary 2009

  • That is Rascal my chorkie, he was whelped on 9/11/08.

    At the Obstructed View Café... Ann Althouse 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.