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English
Etymology
Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative.
Pronunciation
Noun
yip (plural yips)
- 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
Verb
yip (third-person singular simple present yips, present participle yipping, simple past and past participle yipped)
- to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice
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References
Anagrams
Boghom
Noun
yip
- water
References
- John D. Bengtson, In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory (2008, →ISBN
Kir-Balar
Noun
yip
- 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 , plural )
- thread
References
Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “yip”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow