yip

See also: Yip

English

Etymology

Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɪp/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

yip (plural yips)

1. a sharp, high-pitched bark
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     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.

Translations

sound a small dog makes

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 犬叫 (quan jiao)

• Dutch: kef (nl)
• Finnish: vingahdus (fi)
• German: Fiepen n, Bellen n
• Russian: тяв-тяв (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

Translations

sound a small dog makes

• Czech: ňafat impf
• Dutch: keffen (nl)
• Finnish: vingahtaa (fi)
• German: bellen (de), fiepen (de)

Anagrams

• IPY

Boghom

Noun

yip

1. water

References

• John D. Bengtson, In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory (2008, →ISBN

Kir-Balar

Noun

yip

1. water

References

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yip.

Noun

yip (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. thread

References

Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “yip”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow