yip

yip

See also: Yip

English

Etymology

Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative.[1][2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɪp/

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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 1227855:

     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 German: bellen (de), fiepen (de)

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “yip”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. “yippen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Anagrams

• IPY

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Boghom

Noun

yip

1. water

References

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

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Kir-Balar

Noun

yip

1. water

References

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

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Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yip.

Noun

yip (3rd person possessive [[{{{1}}}#Salar|{{{1}}}]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Salar|{{{2}}}]])

1. thread

References

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