YELPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yelping mean? 

• YELPING (noun)
  The noun YELPING has 1 sense:

1. a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)

  Familiarity information: YELPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

yelp; yelping; yip

Hypernyms ("yelping" is a kind of...):

cry (the characteristic utterance of an animal)

Derivation:

yelp (bark in a high-pitched tone)

 Context examples 

The wolves swung in behind, yelping in chorus.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There was a great snarling and yelping.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was answered from behind Dr. Seward's house by the yelping of dogs, and after about a minute three terriers came dashing round the corner of the house.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He heard the wolfish snarling and yelping of strange dogs and the sound of voices.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And so those two brave-hearted fellows made their way amidst the yelping roughs, like two wounded lions amidst a pack of wolves and jackals.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their thin, shrill voices rose high above the roar of the flames and the crash of the masonry, like the yelping of a pack of wolves who see their quarry before them and know that they have well-nigh run him down.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And Buck ran with them, side by side with the wild brother, yelping as he ran.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Three times, four times, and half a dozen times, his sharp little teeth scored on the newcomer, until White Fang, yelping shamelessly, fled to the protection of his mother.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Joe came next, yelping with pain.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)