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Whelp

//wɛlp// intj, noun, verb

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    Alternative form of welp (“well”). alt-of, alternative
Noun
  1. 1
    A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.

    "[…]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are ſtolne away, ſhe being otherwhere."

  2. 2
    young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf wordnet
  3. 3
    An insolent youth; a mere child. derogatory

    "July 13, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance."

  4. 4
    A kind of ship. obsolete
  5. 5
    One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
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  1. 6
    A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
Verb
  1. 1
    To give birth. ambitransitive, usually

    "The bitch whelped."

  2. 2
    give birth to (a puppy) wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English whelp, from Old English hwelp, from Proto-West Germanic *hwelp, from Proto-Germanic *hwelpaz (compare Dutch welp, German Welpe, Welfe, Old Norse hvelpr, Norwegian Nynorsk kvelp, Danish hvalp), from pre-Germanic *kʷelbos, of uncertain origin.

Etymology 2

From Middle English whelpen, from Old English hwelpian, derived from hwelp.

Etymology 3

Variant of welp.

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