Regency Words: Yelpers

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make great complaints YELPERS Wild beasts Grose, F., Egan, P. (1823). Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. United Kingdom: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones.

 

While the origin of this term is fairly obvious, it could be applied to both dogs and wild animals.

THE TIMID HARE GOES ON SEE the timid hare of Nature Or a little puss run down By a few barking yelpers Who will run with hare or hound Yes a few of barking yelpers That would run the poor thing down But puss who has a kenning eye Will give them all a run MACKEY, Mary. The Scraps of Nature. A Poem. United Kingdom: n.p., 1810.

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