yip
sustantivoverboatestiguado en diálogos
- //jɪp//
a sharp, high-pitched bark
sustantivo
- 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.
Etimología
Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative.
verbo
- 1
to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice
Formas
- plural
- yips
- pasado
- yipped
- participio
- yipped
- gerundio
- yipping
- 3.ª persona del singular
- yips