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- verb Present participle of
yap . - noun A sound that
yaps .
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Examples
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Your yapping is being mostly ignored except when we want to laugh at you.
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On a side note, Beck can make a totally sexist comment about Palin --- saying that she should be in the kitchen "yapping" --- but yet pretend to be outraged over the "sexist" photo of Palin on the cover of Newsweek.
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In common with most social networking sites, Facebook has always seemed like a kind of yapping gallery of the lost, the deluded and the damned; if I fancy any of that, I can go to the pub with friends.
It's our class, not our colour, that screws us up Barbara Ellen 2010
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It was the kind of yapping she associated with a terrier in need of discipline, and she wasn't disabused of this notion when four different locks were released and the opening door allowed a Jack Russell to charge forward, intent upon her ankles.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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I'd looked forward to something of a thrilling or unknown character, and they turned out to be mere dogs; just little brown-and-white dogs that you wouldn't notice if you hadn't been excited by their names; kind of yapping mutts that some parties would poison off if they lived in the same neighbourhood with 'em.
Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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A wolf was "yapping" on a swell, and a far-off heron was uttering his booming cry.
The Eagle's Heart Hamlin Garland 1900
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Stewart, who is also chairman of JAMPRO, the state's business and tourism promotion agency, last week said Bartlett has been "yapping" away and did not understand the tourist industry.
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Beck -- who just last week somberly upbraided Newsweek for running a sexist picture of Palin -- doesn't want to hear her "yapping" as "I'm not in the kitchen."
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Beck -- who just last week somberly upbraided Newsweek for running a sexist picture of Palin -- doesn't want to hear her "yapping" as "I'm not in the kitchen."
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Beck -- who just last week somberly upbraided Newsweek for running a sexist picture of Palin -- doesn't want to hear her "yapping" as "I'm not in the kitchen."
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this seems to bother quite a few people but the answer is that i’m just yapping and i don’t feel the need to add punctuation or capitalization when it isn’t necessary for meaning
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this seems to bother quite a few people but the answer is that i’m just yapping and i don’t feel the need to add punctuation or capitalization when it isn’t necessary for meaning
slumry commented on the word yapping
In the sense of "to talk noisily or stupidly" (slang) AHD
AHD=American Heritage Dictionary
AAHD=a dictionary that cannot focus
June 15, 2007