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- verb Present participle of
yap . - noun A sound that
yaps .
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Examples
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Your yapping is being mostly ignored except when we want to laugh at you.
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On a side note, Beck can make a totally sexist comment about Palin --- saying that she should be in the kitchen "yapping" --- but yet pretend to be outraged over the "sexist" photo of Palin on the cover of Newsweek.
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In common with most social networking sites, Facebook has always seemed like a kind of yapping gallery of the lost, the deluded and the damned; if I fancy any of that, I can go to the pub with friends.
It's our class, not our colour, that screws us up Barbara Ellen 2010
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It was the kind of yapping she associated with a terrier in need of discipline, and she wasn't disabused of this notion when four different locks were released and the opening door allowed a Jack Russell to charge forward, intent upon her ankles.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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I'd looked forward to something of a thrilling or unknown character, and they turned out to be mere dogs; just little brown-and-white dogs that you wouldn't notice if you hadn't been excited by their names; kind of yapping mutts that some parties would poison off if they lived in the same neighbourhood with 'em.
Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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A wolf was "yapping" on a swell, and a far-off heron was uttering his booming cry.
The Eagle's Heart Hamlin Garland 1900
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Stewart, who is also chairman of JAMPRO, the state's business and tourism promotion agency, last week said Bartlett has been "yapping" away and did not understand the tourist industry.
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Beck -- who just last week somberly upbraided Newsweek for running a sexist picture of Palin -- doesn't want to hear her "yapping" as "I'm not in the kitchen."
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Beck -- who just last week somberly upbraided Newsweek for running a sexist picture of Palin -- doesn't want to hear her "yapping" as "I'm not in the kitchen."
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Beck -- who just last week somberly upbraided Newsweek for running a sexist picture of Palin -- doesn't want to hear her "yapping" as "I'm not in the kitchen."
slumry commented on the word yapping
In the sense of "to talk noisily or stupidly" (slang) AHD
AHD=American Heritage Dictionary
AAHD=a dictionary that cannot focus
June 15, 2007