yip
verbEtymology Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative.
1
to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice
- Derived terms
- yipper, yipper dog
yip
noun/jɪp/
Etymology Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative.
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.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC: