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whelping

whelping is the present participle and gerund of whelp.

Meaning of whelp

Verb

whelp (third-person singular simple present whelps, present participle whelping, simple past and past participle whelped)

  1. (ambitransitive, usually, she-wolf) To give birth.
    • The bitch whelped.

See all 6 meanings of whelp

Noun

whelping (plural whelpings)

  1. An act of an animal whelping; an act of giving birth to young.

Forms of whelping

pluralwhelpings

Questions about whelping

What does whelping mean?
Whelping means an act of an animal whelping; an act of giving birth to young.
What is whelping the present participle and gerund of?
Whelping is the present participle and gerund of whelp.
What part of speech is whelping?
Whelping is a noun.
What is the plural of whelping?
The plural of whelping is whelpings.

Words near whelping in the dictionary

  1. whelped
  2. whelpeth
  3. whelphood
  4. whelpie
  5. whelpies
  6. whelping
  7. whelping ice
  8. whelpings
  9. whelpish
  10. whelpless
  11. Whelpley

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whelping (page history and authors); whelp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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