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yelper|ˈjɛlpə(r)|
[f. yelp v. + -er1.]
†1. A boaster. Obs.
1340Ayenb. 22 Þe yelpere is þe cockou þet ne kan naȝt zinge bote of him-zelue.
2. An animal that yelps or gives a sharp shrill cry; also, a person who ‘yelps’, etc.
a. A dog that yelps, a whelp. b. The avocet. local. c. A young partridge. d. A redshank. e. A ‘call’ used by sportsmen to imitate the ‘yelp’ of the wild turkey-hen. f. slang. A town-crier. g. slang. A wild beast.
a.1673,1825[implied in 3]. 1847Halliwell, Yelper, a young dog; a whelp. 1850Dobell Roman vi. Poet. Wks. (1875) 90 But let one miscreant yelper howl, and mark How all the pack gives tongue. 1886H. F. Lester Under Two Fig Trees ii, I was strolling..through the establishment [sc. a dog's home], looking into one cage of yelpers after another.
b.1770Pennant Brit. Zool. IV. 69 [Avosettas] are found in considerable numbers during the breeding season, near Fossdyke Wash, in Lincolnshire, called there Yelpers. c1818Britton's Lincolnshire 725.
c.1802W. B. Daniel Rur. Sports II. 518 Vos teneri Yelpers, vos grandævique parentes.
d.1892D. Jordan Within an Hour of London T. ix, The ‘cussed’ redshank or pool-snipe was dubbed the red-legged yelper. Ibid. xiii, If wild-fowl possess the virtue of gratitude, they must quack, bark, whistle, shriek, and grunt untold blessings on the redshank's head, for the yelper is their feathered sentinel. 18..Roosevelt Florida & Game Water-Birds 196 The yelper has a strong, rapid, and often irregular flight and a loud cry.
e.1884Sport with Gun and Rod II. 762 We now take our yelper, and give a few sharp yelps; he [sc. a wild turkey] hears the call.
f.1725New Cant. Dict., Yelper, a Town-Cryer; also, one subject to complain. 1823‘Jon Bee’ Dict. Turf 197 Yelper, a town-crier. Also, a discontented cove, who is forward to complain of his woes, and the imaginary evils of life.
g.1823Grose's Dict. Vulgar T., Yelpers, wild beasts.
3. Applied contemptuously to a speaker or writer, whose utterance is compared to a dog's yelp.
1673S. Parker Reproof Reh. Transp. 268 He will never take any notice of such a despicable yelper as you, unless with a Dog-whip. 1703T. Baker Tunbridge Walks iii. 31 Now shall I be ask'd, a thousand more Whimsical Cross Questions, than a Bashful Witness, by an Impudent Yelper at the Old-Bayley. 1821Blackw. Mag. IX. 61 When they reflect on thy strength, and think of their own petty yelpers. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVII. 467 A pretty pack of yelpers they are, to be sure, that the Whigs hound at the Chancellor. 1827Scott Diary 10 Aug. in Lockhart, In the house of commons he [sc. Canning] was the terror of that species of orators called the Yelpers. 1873J. Greenwood In Strange Company 281 The other merciless howlers and yelpers. |