whelp

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.

   “[…]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are ſtolne away, ſhe being otherwhere.”

2. isim An insolent youth; a mere child.

   “July 13, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.”

3. isim A kind of ship.
4. isim One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
5. isim A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
6. fiil To give birth.

   “The bitch whelped.”

7. ünlem Alternative form of welp (“well”).