Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
YELP
yip, yelp, yelping
(noun) a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)
yelp, yip, yap
(verb) bark in a high-pitched tone; “the puppies yelped”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
yelp (plural yelps)
An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail.
Etymology 2
Verb
yelp (third-person singular simple present yelps, present participle yelping, simple past and past participle yelped)
To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.
Anagrams
• Pyle
Source: Wiktionary
Yelp, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yelped; p. pr. & vb. n. Yelping.] Etym: [OE. yelpen, , to boast, boast noisily, AS. gielpan, gilpan, gylpan; akin to OHG. gelph arrogant: cf. Icel. gjalpa to yelp. Cf. Yap.]
1. To boast. [Obs.] I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. Chaucer.
2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup. A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs Shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.
Yelp, n.
Definition: A sharp, quick cry; a bark. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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