yip

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

yip (plural yips)

1. A sharp, high-pitched bark.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XII:

     I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.

2. A self-fulfilling defeatist or fatalist mindset, see: "The Yips.

Translations

sound a small dog makes

• Chinese: 犬叫 (quan jiao)
• Russian: тяв-тяв (ru) (tjav-tjav)

• Spanish: aullido (es) m, quejido (es) m

Verb

yip (third-person singular simple present yips, present participle yipping, simple past and past participle yipped)

1. To bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice.