YELP

To boast. [Obs.] I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. Chaucer.

To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup. A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs Shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.

A sharp, quick cry; a bark. Chaucer.