EGAVE

whelp

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun An insolent youth; a mere child.
  3. noun A kind of ship.
  4. noun One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
  5. noun A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
  6. verb To give birth.
    The bitch whelped.
  7. interjection Alternative form of welp (“well”).

Similar words

pup puppy doggy runt belligerent will dog wolf whelp wolf-whelp wolfwhelp

Often followed by

of and is to in was that has you

Word family

whelped whelping whelps

Save “whelp” to learn later