yapping

English

Verb

yapping

1. present participle and gerund of yap

Noun

yapping (plural yappings)

1. A sound that yaps, especially the continued barking of a small dog.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 59:

     But just there a small hairy terrier exploded out at the gate, like a floor-mop impelled by some sort of internal combustion, which sent him off into a frenzy of yapping, incessantly jerked backwards by the explosive force of his own detonations.