yelping
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English yelpinge, from Old English ġilping; equivalent to yelp + -ing.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]yelping
- present participle and gerund of yelp
Noun
[edit]yelping (plural yelpings)
- The act of producing a yelp.
- 1969, Louis Johnson, “The Way to Train a Dog” (poem), reprinted in Louis Johnson (poet), Terry Sturm (editor), Selected Poems, Victoria University Press (2000), →ISBN, page 101:
- […] While still a pup, / You put him in a sack, then beat it / With a stick. When howls and yelpings die, / You send the houseboi out to set him free.
- the frenzied yelpings of the huntsman's dogs
- 1969, Louis Johnson, “The Way to Train a Dog” (poem), reprinted in Louis Johnson (poet), Terry Sturm (editor), Selected Poems, Victoria University Press (2000), →ISBN, page 101:
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