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  • adjective Prone to yelp.

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Examples

  • If he hasn't -- or if he runs into a favorite human being, he's highly excitable -- in a harmless but loud, happy, yelpy, houndy, butt-wiggling way.

    Waylon Lewis: Boulder, Colorado: Top 10 Least Dog-Friendly Town in US? Waylon Lewis 2010

  • If he hasn't -- or if he runs into a favorite human being, he's highly excitable -- in a harmless but loud, happy, yelpy, houndy, butt-wiggling way.

    Waylon Lewis: Boulder, Colorado: Top 10 Least Dog-Friendly Town in US? Waylon Lewis 2010

  • If he hasn't -- or if he runs into a favorite human being, he's highly excitable -- in a harmless but loud, happy, yelpy, houndy, butt-wiggling way.

    Waylon Lewis: Boulder, Colorado: Top 10 Least Dog-Friendly Town in US? Waylon Lewis 2010

  • The leafy, artsy neighborhood where I live on the east side of Portland, Ore., is home to many a band, after all, and this squawk—though unusually loud and yelpy—sounded like a typical Pabst- and angst-fueled racket.

    Speedlinking 9/11/07 William Harryman 2007

  • Then comes the clinch... and inevitably, after some ouchy, plucky talon sounds and a short yelpy meow or two, they separate and glower at one another, defiant, jurassic, their tails thrashing around behind them.

    Archive 2006-06-25 2006

  • Then comes the clinch... and inevitably, after some ouchy, plucky talon sounds and a short yelpy meow or two, they separate and glower at one another, defiant, jurassic, their tails thrashing around behind them.

    The 9th Voyage of SnoopBlab, with Lil' Pip 2006

  • I was sitting here just waiting for the singing in the new Malice Mizer song I downloaded (Baroque) and as I was expecting some deep, rich voiced Klaha or Gackt it's the yelpy and horribly annoying Tetsu!! .. ugh .. a-DELETED.

    thewhat Diary Entry thewhat 2005

  • I think Abby is going to be fine, but right now she's very sore and yelpy.

    wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2003

  • Live At The Witch Trials (which wasn't) and Totale's Turn (which was), were packed with great songs, idiosyncratical lyrics, the occasional melody, scratchy. yelpy, off-putting vocals and a certain feeling that this guy Smith had things well sussed.

    The Fall in New Zealand 1982

  • "Eyes Hands Mouth" gives way to the primal, yelpy "Coffins," which sounds like the sonic equivalent of gathering thunderclouds.

    Cokemachineglow.com 2010

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