[f. YELP v. + -ING2.] That yelps; given to or characterized by yelping.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., IV. ii. 47. A little Heard of Englands timorous Deere, Maz’d with a yelping kennell of French Curres. Ibid. (1623), Tit. A., II. iii. 20. Let vs sit downe, and marke their [sc. the hounds’] yelping [Qq. yellowing] noyse.
1664. in Verney Mem. (1907), II. 212. A little yealping Dogg.
1712. Arbuthnot, John Bull, IV. i. The Tradesmen … began to surround Lewis like so many yelping curs about a great boar.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., Rip van Winkle, 55. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, li. Kit is … a crouching cur to those that feed and coax him, and a barking yelping dog to all besides.
1848. in ‘F. Forester,’ Field Sports, II. 326. I heard the yelping notes of some gobblers.
1906. Alice Werner, Natives Brit. Central Africa, viii. 188. The miserable, yelping mongrels which infest the villages.
transf. and fig. 1607. Beaum. & Fl., Woman Hater, I. ii. The very comfort of whose presence shuts The monster hunger from your yelping guts.
1607. Lever, Crucifixe, xx. And like the hunted deere, or our loud yelping sinnes, we stand in feere.
1787. Hawkins, Life of Johnson, 100. The deep-mouthed rancour of Pulteney, and the yelping pertinacity of Pitt.
1871. B’ness Bunsen, in Hare, Life (1879), II. vii. 416. The yelping, barking crowds in Trafalgar Square.
