Definitions
give birth to (a puppy)
Word origin
From Middle English whelp, from Old English hwelp, from Proto-West Germanic *hwelp, from Proto-Germanic *hwelpaz (compare Dutch welp, German Welpe, Welfe, Old Norse hvelpr, Norwegian Nynorsk kvelp, Danish hvalp), from pre-Germanic *kʷelbos, of uncertain origin.
Used in a sentence
“[…]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are ſtolne away, ſhe being otherwhere.”
“Pro. […]Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he^([sic]) did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape.”
“July 13, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Young dog or wolf”5 letters
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