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adjective

as in squealing

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verb

present participle of yap
as in yammering

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yapping
  1. whiny
  2. yammering
  3. yelping
  4. discussing
  5. strident
  6. nasal
  7. penetrating
  8. earsplitting
Adjective
  • Night Country‘s Kali Reis as a traditional Resident Evil commando type, there goes I, Tonya‘s Paul Walter Hauser as a whiny, weaselly corporate executive — and others who simply start sprouting tentacles out of their faces.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026
  • And before the perpetually whiny and moronic peanut gallery says that sports teams have special nights all the time, that’s true, but celebrating heritage, or veterans who fought and died for this country is just an eency weency bit different than force-feeding the gay agenda at a ball game!
    — Tomi Lahren OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
Definition of whiny
Verb
  • That Sean Payton won by 20 on the road and still spent a good chunk of his postgame presser either complaining, yammering about Jack Lemmon, or both, is a heck of a good sign.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Lots of fussy bow-tie types yammering about Renoir.
    — Peter Bogdanovich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
Definition of yammering
Adjective
  • The Dog Pound’s inhabitants will do more yelping than woofing.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Definition of yelping
Verb
  • Prosecutors said that Walsh had been very invested in the Lindsay Clancy case, which was in jury deliberations at the time of Barrett’s death, discussing it with friends over group text.
    — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Rubio nevertheless singled her out when discussing the need to rebuild Venezuela’s political opposition.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of discussing
Adjective
  • The announcement from British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband in the House of Commons on Tuesday amounted to one of the most strident steps against Israeli settlements in recent years.
    — Ilan Ben Zion, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Merton did not believe in the cold war’s strident moral opposition between the free and unfree worlds.
    — Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of strident
Adjective
  • To reduce the risk of PAM, the department advises trying to prevent water from going up your nose during freshwater activities, avoiding putting your head underwater in hot springs and thermal waters and only using distilled water for nasal rinsing.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
  • There’s also a nasal spray for people ages 2 to 49, but it’s not recommended for people who are pregnant or immunocompromised.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of nasal
Adjective
  • There are two types of TBIs, penetrating and non-penetrating.
    — Connie Etermadi, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.
    — Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Definition of penetrating
Adjective
  • Donald, Mark, Willie, Billy, and Tony — practically everyone in Hollis within shouting distance of 203rd Street was laughing at me at earsplitting volume.
    — Stephen A. Smith, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The Wall, though, will be delightfully old school in a cap tip to the court-hugging, earsplitting, rowdy venues of college basketball’s glory days.
    — Bryce MillerColumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
Definition of earsplitting
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“Yapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yapping. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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