Verb
yapper noun
Geographical name
Yapese \ ya-ˈpēz , yä- , -ˈpēs \ adjective
Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty
Synonyms: Noun
Recent Examples on the Web
//There were laughing vipers, yapping gargoyles, salamanders fanning the fire with their breath, and monsters that sneezed in the smoke.
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Ken Follett, Smithsonian, "A Hymn to Notre-Dame," 15 Apr. 2019
//All of this suggests that your co-worker who won’t stop yapping about how keto will change your life might be completely right.
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Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, "Diet advice changes by the minute. How are we supposed to figure out what to eat?," 20 Aug. 2019
//Before any baby boomers start yapping about how millennials are too sensitive, please take a class in sarcasm, then consider wrapping up a gag gift or two to the beloved millennials in your life to help them build a thicker skin this holiday season.
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Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, "This Monopoly For Millennials Is The Funniest, But Cruelest Game Of The Holiday Season," 19 Nov. 2018
//How to use it: When your dog won’t stop yapping, give it something to chew on.
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Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, "Beyond bugs: 12 unique (and strange) ingredients at Mom's Organic Market and what to do with them," 16 May 2018
//Both teams’ fans started chanting during the back-and-forth yapping between the players.
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Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, "Michigan State's Jaren Jackson, Nick Ward benched for much of 2nd half," 3 Mar. 2018
//Dogs of all colors and varieties yap from their crates.
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Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, "Despite lots of barking and one bad bite, dogs still welcome at winter homeless shelter | The Sacramento Bee," 18 Feb. 2018
//Wolff clearly seduced, weaseled, confused and finagled his sources to get them yapping.
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Michael Miner, Chicago Reader, "Criminal Justice / Media / News Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, and the question of when we get to say the hell with the rules," 11 Jan. 2018
//The canine soldiers in Sacramento's booming marijuana wars snarl and yap inside their kennels at the Front Street Animal Shelter.
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Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, "Marijuana guard dogs strain animal shelter as illegal pot grows rise in Sacramento," 27 June 2018
//More Stories Nine also marks the band’s second album since the departure of DeLonge, whose utterly distinctive yap has been replaced by the more generic emo voice of Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "Blink-182’s Secret Seriousness," 20 Sep. 2019
//Some offer support via timely yaps, others by quiet companionship.
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Natasha Frost, Quartzy, "Flying with an emotional support animal may soon get a whole lot more difficult," 11 Sep. 2019
//The source said Green sometimes personalizes his yaps at refs.
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Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, "Some fine tuning to keep the Warriors’ engine humming," 22 Feb. 2018
//The perpetual disconnect between NBA refs and players has risen to a crisis level this season, in no small part because the best team can’t shut its yap and play ball.
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Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, "Love ’em or hate ’em, Warriors swagger into All-Star break," 15 Feb. 2018
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Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, "Video captured Woodbury bus aide allegedly molesting 6 preschool girls," 9 Feb. 2017
//But with half of Washington leaking to the other half, and with nobody in town including the president* able to keep their yaps shut, the whole government is throwing rods and leaking oil.
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Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, "Here's What You Get When You Put Joe Lieberman in There," 19 May 2017
First Known Use of yap
Verb
1596, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun
1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
History and Etymology for yap
Dictionary Entries near yap
More Synonyms and Antonyms ofyap
the opening through which food passes into the body of an animal
- a dope with a talent for opening his yap at exactly the wrong moment
More Definitions foryap
of a dog : to bark in high, quick sounds
informal : to talk in a loud and annoying way
: a dog's high, quick bark
1 : to bark often continuously with quick high-pitched sounds
2 : to talk continuously and often loudly : chatter
: a quick high-pitched bark