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yelping

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Making sharp, high-pitched cries; in poetry, evokes animals, pain, or urgent sound.

Detailed Definition
Yelping is a vivid verb for the short, sharp cries of dogs or other animals. Frost uses it to give the hunters’ dogs a noisy, urgent presence as they chase rabbits from the wall gaps.
Example
Example in poetry:
“To please the yelping dogs” — traditional poetic diction; “Yelping” describes a sharp, repeated, high-pitched bark; Yelping dogs broke the silence of the lane; The sound-word can create comic irritation, alarm, or a sense of pursuit
Additional Notes
The word in the quote is a specific animal-noise verb that is less ordinary than simple "barking."; Found in the poem, Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Also Known As
howling barking
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