yap

Meanings

1. The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
2. Casual talk; chatter.
3. The mouth, which produces speech.
4. A badly behaved person, especially a child.
5. A fool.

1. Of a small dog, to bark.
2. To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
3. To rob or steal from (someone).

1. An island of the Caroline Islands, western Micronesia.
2. One of the four states that composes the Federated States of Micronesia.

1. A Chinese surname from Hokkien or Hakka.

Etymology

Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, from dialectal yap, yaup, yalp (“to yap, yelp”), from Middle English ȝælpen, variant of yelpen (“to yelp”). More at yelp.