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Yip

//jɪp// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Cantonese.
Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice
  2. 2
    bark in a high-pitched tone wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative.

Etymology 2

Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Cantonese 葉 /叶 (jip6).

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