whelp

A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.

[…]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are ſtolne away, ſhe being otherwhere.

Pro. […]Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he^([sic]) did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape.

An insolent youth; a mere child.

July 13, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.

October 22, 2011, Princess Luna, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Luna Eclipsed" Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!

A kind of ship.

One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.

A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).

To give birth.

The bitch whelped.

The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.

Alternative form of welp (“well”).