Слово "yap". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Kashtanka yapped with delight, but at that moment the old cat yawned and, losing his balance, rolled off the gander.

– Arthur Philip Dent? - pursued the alien in a kind of efficient yap.

Yapping had same significance as squeals of kittens in a box.

"Holden, God damn it, I'm warning you, now. For the last time. If you don't keep your yap shut, I'm gonna--"

"Holden, God damn it, I'm warning you, now. For the last time. If you don't keep your yap shut, I'm gonna--"

'Thirty to forty group!' yapped a piercing female voice. 'Thirty to forty group!

At the time he raided the steamship companies, they had yapped at him and worried him, the whole pack of them, only to have him whirl around and whip them in the fiercest pitched battle San Francisco had ever known.

As his nausea passed, the dog dozed off, luxuriating in the warmth and the sense of relief as his injury healed. He even snored a little and managed to enjoy a snatch of a pleasant dream — he dreamed he had torn a whole tuft of feathers out of the owl’s tail… until an agitated voice started yapping above his head.