yap

EnglishEdit

yap (countable and uncountable, plural yaps)

(countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
(uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter.
- 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59:
  Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 190:
  They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”
(countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.
Shut your yap!
(countable, Tyneside) A badly behaved child; a brat.

high-pitched bark

yap (third-person singular simple present yaps, present participle yapping, simple past and past participle yapped)

(intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
(intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
You’re always yapping - I wish you’d shut up.
(transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).
- 2000, M.O.P., Ante Up:
  Ante up! Yap that fool!

of a small dog, to bark

slang: to talk, especially excessively

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The word is also represented ya, yop, ya’p, yo’p.

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Yapese (Austronesian language spoken in the Federated States of Micronesia, especially by the inhabitants of Yap)

Inflection of yap (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		yap	—
genitive		yapin	—
partitive		yapia	—
illative		yapiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		yap	—
accusative	nom.	yap	—
accusative	gen.	yapin	—
genitive		yapin	—
partitive		yapia	—
inessive		yapissa	—
elative		yapista	—
illative		yapiin	—
adessive		yapilla	—
ablative		yapilta	—
allative		yapille	—
essive		yapina	—
translative		yapiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		yapitta	—
comitative		—	—