单词 | yelper |
释义 | yelpern.ΘΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster yelper1340 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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