Chiefly dial. Also 4 ȝolp, 6 yaulpe, yolp(e, 6–7 yalp, 7, 9 yope. [Echoic. Cf. YAP v. and YELP v.]
1. intr. To shout or exclaim hoarsely; to yelp, as a dog; to cry harshly or querulously, as a bird.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 846. What! þay ȝeȝed & ȝolped of ȝestande sorȝe.
a. 1560. Phaer, Æneid, IX. (1562), Ee ij b. Thereupon men shout, yt hye heauen yalping yells.
1573. Baret, Alv., Y 3. To Yaulpe and barke like a dogge, and a foxe, gannio.
1580. Fulke, Retentive, 51. They like impudent dogges yolpe & barke against vs.
1599. Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1632), 114. To stop their adversaries mouthes, alwayes yolping and crying with hatefull sounds.
1623. Jobson, Golden Trade, 145. The Lyon … remaines feeding, making a kind of grumbling noyse: whilest his small seruant [sc. the Jackal] stands barking, and yalping by, attending vntill his Master hath feasted, and then hee falls vpon the remainder.
1654–1787. [implied in yawper (yoper), yawping: see below].
1802. Sibbald, Chron. Scot. Poetry, IV. Gloss., Yaup,… more commonly denotes the incessant crying of birds.
1880. Spec. Westmoreland Dial., II. 52 (E.D.D.). We yoped an’ shool’t ta egg folk on.
1885. Letts’s Househ. Mag., 620/2. ‘That’s it!’ yawped Mr. Spoopendyke. ‘You’ve been thinking again!’
1915. Daily Mail, 12 March, 4/5. The Press of the Fatherland yelped and yawped at America’s heels.
2. trans. To utter with a strident or harsh voice.
1567. Painter, Pal. Pleas., II. 161 b. To pacify this immoderate rage which in vaine yu yalpest forth against this troupe.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, Wks. (Grosart), III. 198. What more haue I in my Proclamation to yalp out?
3. intr. To gape. dial. (Cf. GAUP v.)
1836. Haliburton, Clockm., Ser. I. xxxi. They stand starin and yawpin, all eyes and mouth.
1895. Bret Harte, in Pall Mall Mag., Jan., 7. ‘Sue! Wot yer yawpin’ at thar?’
Hence Yawping, yauping vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; also Yawper, yauper (yoper), one that yawps.
1576. Fleming, trans. Caius’ Dogs (1880), 31. The older dogges … cease from yolping.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, Wks. (Grosart), V. 214. The apostacie of the sands from the yalping world was so great, that they ioynd themselues to the maine land of Eastflege.
1654. Gataker, Disc. Apol., 97. The yalping of maungie Whelps.
1678. E. Howard, Man of Newmarket, IV. i. 43. Thou art so earnest still to follow Yopers, that make so much haste to devour a simple Hare.
1787. Grose, Provinc. Gloss. (1790), Yaaping, crying in despair, lamenting. Applied to chickens lamenting the absence of their parent hen.
1825. Jamieson, Yauping, part. adj., ill-natured, peevish.
1846. Worcester, Yauper, one that yaups. A. Everett.
1896. Crockett, Grey Man, xxxvii. The … yawping and crying of the seabirds.
1899. Jesse L. Williams, Stolen Story, etc. 206. When the time came, and it came soon after this, a goodly number of these same yawping lads went to the front to get shot at.
