Definitions for whelp

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whelp whelp

Spelling: [hwelp, welp]

IPA: /ʰwɛlp, wɛlp/

Whelp is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in whelp (ehlpw).

Definitions for whelp

noun

1. the young of the dog, or of the wolf, bear, lion, tiger, seal, etc.
2. a youth, especially an impudent or despised one.
3. Machinery. any of a series of longitudinal projections or ridges on the barrel of a capstan, windlass, etc. any of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.

verb (used with or without object)

1. (of a female dog, lion, etc.) to give birth to (young).

Origin of whelp

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English hwelp (cognate with German Welf); (v.) Middle English whelpen, derivative of the noun

Examples for whelp

When we came in together to look at the English whelp the drawer was open.

The Lioness came up, and bitterly lamented the death of her whelp.

The whelp of a Wolf was brought him, with a request that he would feel it, and say what it was.

For as the lion's whelp may be called a lion, or the horse's foal a foal, so the son of a king may be called a king.

"It seems you love that—whelp, that thing that was my brother," he said, sneering.

Give the whelp a couple of half-crowns, Halkett, and send him adrift.

You've done your work and that whelp shall not keep you out of its results.

Stop that barkin', now, you whelp, Or I'll kick you till you yelp!

But it was provoking to be flouted, so politely too, by that whelp of the Golden Dog!

How came you here, you vagabond Irish whelp, in this company?