whelp
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And for this match at the Kennington Oval, a desperate England were blooding eight new internationals, including a 17-year-old whelp, James Prinsep.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2011
Such as: hood, bum, slob, jerk, thug, whelp.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first, Medicine Ball Caravan looks like another whelp from the Woodstock litter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Guelph comes from hwelp or whelp, meaning a wolf's pup, and Ghibelline is an Italian attempt to pronounce the name of the counts of Waiblingen.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had grown more restive every day they waited; much longer and he would have been fit to whelp cubs.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Kruse now transfers his pregnant dogs to Lichirie, who whelps the puppies and raises them until they’re weaned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
James Franco has taken Cormac McCarthy’s stylistic prose and replaced it with grunts, whelps and whinnies.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2014
He refers to them, as if they were abused whelps, as “members of our litter.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2013
You can't close them fast enough, and eventually the screen whelps itself into incoherence.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2011
His heart cried out within him the way a brach with whelps between her legs would howl and bristle at a stranger—so the hackles of his heart rose at that laughter.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
The puppies were whelped by Kruse’s business partner and former employee who sells the litters from Kruse’s breeding dogs under his own license, which had not been suspended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
His new wife whelped out three babies within three years and likes to think she is an authority on my child, “Katy.”
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2019
And from Susan’s line, the queen’s breeding program at the Kennels of Windsor whelped hundreds of corgi puppies.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2018
"I must once again repeat the concerns we have about the viability and deliverability of the Northumberland Development Project," he whelped.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2011
It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
Long term, Hammill and Stenson predict, seals may establish whelping grounds farther north.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
If you’re craving some cuteness overload, check out Warrior Canine Connection’s puppy whelping room cam.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
The whelping, or delivery, area is off-limits, but we could watch the mothers and their litters on a wall of video feeds.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019
He said the puppies live in what’s called a whelping box right now, which is where they nurse and eat their gruel.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 11, 2016
She loves especially to hear about the dark coasts of South America with their impenetrable walls of trees and offshore breezes full of the stink of rotting kelp and the cries of whelping seals.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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