yip
See also: Yip
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɪp/
- Rhymes: -ɪp
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 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.
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Translations
Boghom
References
- John D. Bengtson, In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory (2008, →ISBN
Kir-Balar
References
- Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38
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