whelps

Meaning of whelps

plural 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, 3rd person present
  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 whelps

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

whelps

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • whelps is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with whelps

Phelps, helps, kelps, skelps, outyelps, yelps

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