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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yappy

1909, from yap + -y (2).

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yappy

a. 1 Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner. 2 Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.

Usage examples of "yappy".

Several drank cans of soda that they had purchased from the tailgate refreshment stand Bea and Yappy had set up.

Newlin, Yappy, and Ted confronted Justin with belligerent expressions.

She turned her head and saw Yappy, Ted, and Newlin saunter into the room and take seats in the last row.

Crazy Otis Landing shopkeepers, and I refuse to believe that Bea or Radiance or Yappy or Ted would do something like this.

Newlin broke off in relief when Yappy skidded to a halt in the doorway.

His dark marble-like eyes burned with malevolence seldom seen outside the ranks of drill instructors or kid-hating spinster ladies with yappy dogs, and he tightened his grip on my leg just to let me know my assessment was not off the mark at all.

There is one thing that puzzles me, however, and that is that although Yappy trailed that fox directly from the chicken yard, he lost the trail right in the woods and could not pick it up again.

When he saw Yappy coming toward the thicket he ran right toward the excited dog and then hid behind another thicket.

Brushtail and the four little Brushies ran into the hole in the thicket and Father Brushtail ran away through the woods with Yappy in hot pursuit, Doctor Rabbit decided he had better be going.

Brushtail would surely be right there to lead Yappy away off into the woods.

Doctor Rabbit was hopping along, looking for Brushtail, when Yappy came tearing through the woods and almost ran into Brushtail.

Brushtail saw Yappy coming, but he thought Yappy would pass by because he had not as yet smelled the trail.

But Yappy passed so close he smelled fox, and then Brushtail certainly did have to jump and run.

All of a sudden he saw Farmer Roe and his boy running toward Yappy, and with them was another big dog which joined in the chase after Brushtail.

He looked out in the woods in the direction where Yappy and the other hound were still running and barking.