whelp

Meaning of whelp

noun
  1. a puppy.
  2. a boy or young man (often as a disparaging form of address).
    too high and mighty to call her ‘Mam’—isn't that so, whelp?
  3. a set of projections on the barrel of a capstan or windlass.
verb
  1. (of a female dog) give birth to (a puppy).
    Copper whelped seven puppies
    a bitch due to whelp

Old English hwelp (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch welp and German Welf .

Information about whelp

  • The plural form of whelp is: whelps.
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Hyphenation of whelp

whelp

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • whelp is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

whelp synonyms

Meaning pup:

pup

Translation of whelp

Words that rhyme with whelp

Help, help, s'help, chelp, behelp, unhelp, afterhelp, overhelp, underhelp, meethelp, rewhelp, yarwhelp

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