Yelp (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Yelped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Yelping.] [OE. yelpen, ”elpen, to boast, boast noisily, AS. gielpan, gilpan, gylpan; akin to OHG. gelph arrogant: cf. Icel. gjālpa to yelp. Cf. Yap.]
1. To boast.
I keep not of armes for to yelpe. Chaucer.
2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
A little herd of England's timorous deer,
Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs? Shak.
At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.