Definitions for whelp
ʰwɛlp, wɛlpwhelp

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pup, whelpverb

   young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf

2. whelp, pupverb

   birth

   "the dog whelped"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. whelpnoun

   the young of a mammal, especially of a dog or wolf.

2. whelpnoun

   an insolent youth.

3. whelpnoun

   one of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.

4. whelpnoun

   a tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket, def. 2; cog, def. 1).

5. whelpverb

   to give birth.

   The bitch whelped.

6. Etymology: hwelp 'pup, wolf cub', from hwelpaz (compare welp, obsolete Welf, hvalp), from pre-Germanic *kʷelbos, from *gʷelbhos (compare жрѣбѧ 'foal', vulva, bolva, volba 'womb', βρέφος 'fœtus, newborn', Hittite huēlpi 'overipe, fresh; newborn animal', उल्ब 'womb').

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Whelpnoun

   Etymology: welp, Dutch; huolpar, Islandick; hwalp, Swedish.

   1. The young of a dog; a puppy.

   They call’d us, for our fierceness, English dogs,
   Now, like their whelps, we crying run away. William Shakespeare.

   Whelps come to their growth within three quarters of a year. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   Whelps are blind nine days, and then begin to see as generally believed; but as we have elsewhere declared, it is rare that their eye-lids open until the twelfth day. Brown.

   2. The young of any beast of prey.

   The lion’s whelp shall be to himself unknown. William Shakespeare.

   Those unlickt bear whelps. John Donne.

   3. A son. In contempt.

   The young whelp of Talbot’s raging brood
   Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmens blood. William Shakespeare.

   4. A young man. In contempt.

   Slave, I will strike your soul out with my foot,
   Let me but find you again with such a face:
   You whelp. Ben Jonson, Catiline.

   That aukward whelp, with his money-bags, would have made his entrance. Joseph Addison, Guardian.

2. To Whelpverb

   To bring young. Applied to beasts, generally beasts of prey.

   A lioness hath whelped in the streets,
   And graves have yawn’d. William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar.

   In a bitch ready to whelp, we found four puppies. Boyle.

   In their palaces,
   Where luxury late reign’d, sea-monsters whelp’d
   And stabled. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. whelp

   A whelp is a young offspring of a mammal, particularly a carnivorous mammal such as a dog or a wolf. It can also be used as a term expressing contempt for an immature or inexperienced person.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Whelpnoun

   one of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps

2. Whelpnoun

   a child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt

3. Whelpnoun

   one of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass

4. Whelpnoun

   one of the teeth of a sprocket wheel

5. Whelpverb

   to bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey

6. Whelpverb

   to bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to

7. Etymology: [AS. hwelp; akin to D. welp, G. & OHG. welf, Icel. hvelpr, Dan. hvalp, Sw. valp.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Whelp

   hwelp, n. the young of the dog kind and of lions, &c.: a puppy: a cub: a young man (in contempt).—v.i. and v.t. to bring forth young. [A.S. hwelp; Ice. hvelpr.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of whelp in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of whelp in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=whelp
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Whelp
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=whelp
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whelp
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=whelp