yip
nounverbattested in dialogue
- //jɪp//
a sharp, high-pitched bark
noun
- 1
a sharp, high-pitched bark
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.
Etymology
Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative.
verb
- 1
to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice
Forms
- plural
- yips
- past tense
- yipped
- past participle
- yipped
- present participle
- yipping
- third person singular
- yips