2 September 2016

yip

[yip]

plural noun

1. (informal) the yips, (in sport, originally esp golf) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
Word Origin

Word Origin and History for yip

yip
1903, possibly from dialectal yip “to cheep like a bird” (early 19c.), from Middle English yippen (mid-15c.), of imitative origin.

Slang definitions & phrases for yip

yips

noun
: The president mused about his ”yips” anxiety when putting (1963+ Golf)

yip
verb

To talk in an insistent, petulant, and annoying way : Will you please stop yipping about your rights?

[1907+; echoic of the high-pitched bark of a small dog]

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Today’s quotes

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

– William Tecumseh Sherman

On this day

2 – 5 September 1666 – Great Fire of London. It destroyed 13,200 homes, leaving 70,000 of the 80,000 inhabitants homeless, 87 churches, St Paul’s Cathedral.

2 September 1752 – last day of the Julian calendar as the British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar. To balance the books, the next 10 days (3 – 13 September) are written off so the Gregorian commences on 14 September, which should have been 3 September in the Julian calendar.

2 September 1945 – Japan signs the ‘Instrument of Surrender’, on the USS Missouri, bringing World War II to an end.

2 September 1951 – Australia, New Zealand and United States sign the ANZUS Security Treaty, a defence pact.

2 September 1973 – death of J.R.R. Tolkien, author of ‘The Hobbit‘ and ‘Lord of the Rings‘. Born 3 January 1892.