whelp

IPA: hwˈɛɫp

A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
(derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
(obsolete) A kind of ship.
One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).

Examples of "whelp" in Sentences

“Tell me, you green-eyed whelp,” he whispered, leaning down.
At the word whelp, he cuffed him with his hammerlike fist, and Miner went down in a heap.
One thing you definitely * don't* want to see in your fic: The words 'whelp', 'deadboy', 'g-man', and the like.
Well, the next servant I tell you of shall not be called a whelp, if 'twere not to give you a stick to beat myself with.
Captain L'nao, whom he felt was always too eager to whelp her seed anywhere in the cosmos, had made the decision with her usual irritating haste.
I was suitably terrified because I regarded myself as the young whelp who, quite frankly, wasn't possibly good enough to clean his boots, let alone give him advice on how to act a scene.
For the whelp is a piece of flesh little more than a mouse, having neither eyes nor ears, and having claws some-deal bourgeoning, and so this lump she licketh, and shapeth a whelp with licking ....
Item the first: For anybody who thinks they might want a Giant Ridiculous Dogge on their very own, my mom and her partner have a bitch in whelp, and are expecting puppies on the ground in January if all goes well.