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whelp
/wɛlp/
noun 5verb 1intj 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
awkward
WHELP + NOUN
money
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
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!
3
A kind of ship.
4
One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
5
A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
verb
1
To give birth.
The bitch whelped.
The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.
intj
1
Alternative form of welp (“well”).
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Idioms & Phrases
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[…]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are ſtolne away, ſhe being otherwhere.
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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.
Wiktionary03
July 13, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.
Wiktionary04
The bitch whelped.
Wiktionary05
The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.
Wiktionary06
Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?
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