whelp

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. An insolent youth; a mere child. derogatory
    — July 13, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.
  3. A kind of ship. obsolete
  4. One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
  5. A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
动词 v.
  1. To give birth. ambitransitive,usually
    — The bitch whelped.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Alternative form of welp (“well”). alt-of,alternative

词形变化

whelps plural whelps present,singular,third-person whelping participle,present whelped participle,past whelped past

词汇关系

衍生词
bear-whelp fox whelp fox-whelp fox's whelp whelpie whelping ice whelpling whelpy wolf whelp wolf-whelp wolf's whelp
相关词
Guelph

词源

词源 1
From Middle English whelp, from Old English hwelp, from Proto-West Germanic *hwelp, from Proto-Germanic *hwelpaz (compare Dutch welp, German Welpe, Welfe, Old Norse hvelpr, Norwegian Nynorsk kvelp, Danish hvalp), from pre-Germanic *kʷelbos, of uncertain origin.
词源 2
From Middle English whelpen, from Old English hwelpian, derived from hwelp.
词源 3
Variant of welp.
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