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plural yips
a sharp, high-pitched bark quotations examples
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
third-person singular simple present yips, present participle yipping, simple past and past participle yipped
to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice examples