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单词 yelper
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yelpern.

Brit. /ˈjɛlpə/, U.S. /ˈjɛlpər/
Etymology: < yelp v. + -er suffix1.
1. A boaster. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster
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avaunterc1374
braggerc1390
fare-makerc1440
seggerc1440
shakerc1440
vaunter1484
roosera1500
praterc1500
cracker1509
vouster?a1513
boaster1574
Thrasoa1576
braggarta1577
braver1589
glorioser1589
bragout1592
rodomont1592
braggadocio1594
gloriosoc1599
puckfist1600
burgullian1601
puff1601
forthputtera1610
rodomontado1609
ostentator1611
fanfaron1622
potgun1623
thrasonist1626
cracka1640
vapourer1653
braggadocian1654
rodomontadist1655
charlatan1670
brag1671
rodomontade1683
gasconader1709
rodomontader1730
Gascon1757
spread eagle1809
bag of wind1816
penny trumpeter1828
spraga1838
gasser1855
blow-hard1857
blower1863
crower1864
gabber1869
flannel-mouth1882
punk-fist1890
skiter1898
Tartarin1903
blow1904
skite1906
poofter1916
trombenik1922
shooter of lines1941
fat-mouth1942
wide-mouth1959
Wheneye1982
trash talker1986
braggarist-
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 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.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > yelp > dog defined by
whappet1577
yap1603
yawper1678
yapper1823
yelper1847
1673 [see sense 3]. 1703 [see sense 3].
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Yelper, a young dog; a whelp.
1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vi. 81 But let one miscreant yelper howl, and mark How all the pack gives tongue.
1886 H. 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. The avocet. local.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > member of genus Recurvirostra (avocet)
scooper1668
shoeing-horn1668
crooked-bill1705
cobbler's awl1759
picarini1770
yelper1770
avocet1771
scooping avocet1776
red-necked avocet1823
bluestocking1844
shoehorn1864
1770 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) IV. 69 Avosetta are found in considerable numbers during the breeding season, near Fossdyke Wash, in Lincolnshire, called there Yelpers.
c1818 Britton's Lincolnshire 725.
c. A young partridge.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Perdix (partridge) > young
stub-tail1686
flapper1747
yelper1802
cheeper1864
1802 W. B. Daniel Rural Sports II. 518 Vos teneri Yelpers, vos grandævique parentes.
d. A redshank.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa totanus (red(-)shank)
redshank1525
redling1655
pool-snite1661
pool snipe1678
red-legged horseman1678
red-legged sandpiper1785
red-leg1798
sand cock1804
snipe1829
redshank gambet1840
teuk1859
yelper1892
1892 D. Jordan Within Hour of London ix The ‘cussed’ redshank or pool-snipe was dubbed the red-legged yelper.
1892 D. Jordan Within Hour of London 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.. R. B. Roosevelt Florida & Game Water Birds 196 The yelper has a strong, rapid, and often irregular flight and a loud cry.
e. A ‘call’ used by sportsmen to imitate the ‘yelp’ of the wild turkey-hen.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > calls
quail-pipea1425
call1607
quail call1614
bird call1621
lark call1791
caller1845
yelper1884
turkey-yelper1895
1884 Sport with Gun & Rod II. 762 We now take our yelper, and give a few sharp yelps; he [sc. a wild turkey] hears the call.
f. slang. A town-crier.
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society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer > town crier or bellman
criera1387
bellman1391
beadlec1432
forcriera1440
common crier1535
town crier1560
lantern and candle man1592
night-walker1699
yelper1725
1725 New Canting Dict. Yelper, a Town-Cryer; also, one subject to complain.
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 197 Yelper, a town-crier. Also, a discontented cove, who is forward to complain of his woes, and the imaginary evils of life.
g. slang. A wild beast.
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the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > wild animal
wild deerc825
wildc1275
Satanasc1300
wild beastc1325
unbeasta1400
savage?a1425
feral1639
man-keen1652
yelper1823
wildling1841
tiger1859
rogue1872
ferine1895
wilding1897
1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Yelpers, wild beasts.
3. Applied contemptuously to a speaker or writer, whose utterance is compared to a dog's yelp.
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the mind > language > speech > one who speaks > [noun] > in specific ways
speakera1340
breatherc1384
boasterc1400
rattlerc1449
brawler1581
shredder1592
venter1611
speak-truth1614
ranter1649
bawler1656
yelper1673
mouther1746
spouter1759
oralist1867
mushmouth1868
loudmouth1870
megaphonist1906
1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 268 He will never take any notice of such a despicable yelper as you, unless with a Dog-whip.
1703 T. Baker Tunbridge-walks iii. sig. E4 Now shall I be ask'd, a thousand more Whimsical Cross Questions, than a Bashful Witness, by an Impudent Yelper at the Old-Bayley.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 9 61 When they reflect on thy strength, and think of their own petty yelpers.
1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 467 A pretty pack of yelpers they are, to be sure, that the Whigs hound at the Chancellor.
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Aug. (1941) 87 In the House of Commons he [sc. Canning] was the terror of that species of orators called the Yelpers.
1873 J. Greenwood In Strange Company 281 The other merciless howlers and yelpers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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