Whelp

Noun

 * 1) the young of a mammal.
 * 2) an insolent youth.
 * 3) one of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
 * 4) a tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket, def. 2; cog, def. 1).

Verb

 * 1) to give birth.
 * The bitch whelped.

Thesaurus
Seeing Eye dog, animal, bandog, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, beast, birdling, bitch, bowwow, boy, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, calf, calve, canine, cast, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, cub, cur, dog, dogie, drop, duckling, fancy dog, farrow, fawn, fellow, fledgling, foal, fryer, give birth, gosling, guide dog, gyp, have, have a baby, have young, hobbledehoy, hound, hyena, insect, kennel, kid, kit, kitten, labor, lad, laddie, lamb, lambkin, lap dog, lie in, litter, manchild, master, mongrel, muchacho, nest, nestling, pack of dogs, pig, piglet, pigling, polecat, polliwog, pooch, pullet, pup, puppy, reptile, schoolboy, serpent, sheep dog, shoat, show dog, skunk, sled dog, slut, snake, sonny, sonny boy, swine, tadpole, throw, toy dog, travail, varmint, vermin, viper, wale, watchdog, weal, weaner, welt, whelk, working dog, worm, yean, yeanling, young man, youth

Etymology
hwelp: 'pup, wolf cub', from (compare  welp, obsolete  Welf:,  hvalp:), from pre-Germanic *kʷelbos, from  *gʷelbhos (compare  жрѣбѧ: 'foal',  vulva:, bolva, volba 'womb',  βρέφος: 'fœtus, newborn', Hittite huēlpi 'overipe, fresh; newborn animal',  उल्ब: 'womb').

Noun

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