yap
/jæp/
yap noun: the high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
Noun
yap (countable and uncountable, plural yaps)
- The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
- Casual talk; chatter.
- 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.1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59
- 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.”1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 190
- The mouth, which produces speech.
- Shut your yap!
- A badly behaved person, especially a child.
- A fool.
Verb
yap (third-person singular simple present yaps, present participle yapping, simple past and past participle yapped)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Yap
Yap
- An island of the Caroline Islands, western Micronesia.
- One of the four states that composes the Federated States of Micronesia.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Yap
Yap
- A Chinese surname from Hokkien or Hakka.
yap meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
yap in Hindi
- slang: to talk, especially excessively
- बकना baknā
yap in Tamil
- slang: to talk, especially excessively
- வாயாடு vāyāṭu
yap in Marathi
- slang: to talk, especially excessively
- बकणे bakṇe
yap in Urdu
- بک بک, غراہٹ, تنک مزاجی, بھونکنا, چڑچڑے پن سے بولنا, غرانا
More languagesFewer languages
- yap in Malayalam
- ചിലയ്ക്കുക, കുരയ്ക്കുക, മോങ്ങുക, ഓരിയിടുക
- yap in Vietnamese
- bô bô
Examples of yap in a sentence
- I find miniature dogs annoying; they seem to yap more than full-size dogs.
- My neighbour sooled her bull mastiff onto my chihuahua, because she was sick of its yapping and wanted it to meet its demise.
- "Haad yeor gob, ye lippy yap!"
Forms of yap
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | yaps |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | yaps |
| present participle | yapping |
| past participle | yapped |
| past | yapped |
Origin of yap
Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, from dialectal yap, yaup, yalp (“to yap, yelp”). More at yelp.
From Hokkien 葉 /叶 (Ia̍p) and Hakka 葉 /叶 (Ya̍p).
Words formed from yap
Phrases with yap
Words that rhyme with yap
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- scrap
- map
- rap
- slap
- overlap
- pap
- crap
- sap
- bap
- unwrap
- app
- chap
- dap
- frappe
- nap
- uncap
- wap
- entrap
- enwrap
- fap
- frap
- hap
- jap
- minimap
- Phrygian cap
- plap
- recap
- whap
- anion gap
- asap
- bad rap
- belap
- betrap
- cloth cap
- Fanny Murray cap
- FAPP
- GAAP
- ion trap
- katsap
- lagniappe
- mishap
- Noddy cap
- scap
- shrap
- stap
- umbelap
- unstrap
- voting cap
Questions about yap
- What does yap mean?
- Yap means the high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
- What is yap in Hindi?
- Yap in Hindi is बकना (baknā). See Yap meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is yap?
- Yap can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce yap?
- Yap is pronounced /jæp/.
- What is the plural of yap?
- The plural of yap is yaps.
Words near yap in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: yap (page history and authors); Yap (page history and authors); yap (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yap (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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