yappy
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7.7
- adjective
- /ˈjæpi/
- Informal
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- Jack self-consciously stops singing as Elizabeth Peterson, in her 60s, wearing a mink coat, gets on the elevator carrying a yappy little dog.
- yappy puppy
- yappy dog
- little yappy
They're running and a dog, a yappy dog runs out onto the track and the horse trips over the dog and the guy dies.
- They're running and a dog, a yappy dog runs out onto the track and the horse trips over the dog and the guy dies.
Examples
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She found her neighbor's constantly yappy dog to be quite annoying.
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- Oh, with the yappy little dog?
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We also have a dog; she can be yappy.
Blog text (34) -
I live in WI with my awesome wife and two yappy dogs.
Blog text (5) -
It doesn't need to be a big one, just a yappy one.
Blog text (4) -
We have a 10-month-old Bichon who is yappy as well, and Scarlet is already used to it.
Blog text (34) -
He doesn't bite, but he's a bit yappy with strangers.
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It's a Pomeranian, one of those yappy little lap dogs—but seen from any perspective, it's something out of a horror movie.
Fiction book (1998) -
The little dog was yappy, barking loudly at every passerby.
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Every time someone knocked on the door, their yappy puppy would start barking excitedly.
Synonyms
Talking a lot in a friendly, lively way
Antonyms
How Noisy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Yappy comes from the short bark yap, a sound word that copies a quick, high 'bark', plus the ending -y which means 'full of' or 'tending to'. So something called yappy 'barks' or talks a lot in a high, often annoying voice.