Whelped vs Born - What's the difference?
whelped | born |
(whelp)
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.
* Addison
(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, def. 2; cog, def. 1).
(ambitransitive) To give birth.
; given birth to.
Well suited to (some behaviour or occupation), as though from birth.
* 1942 , Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major
(Geordie) With fire.
As a verb whelped
is (whelp).As a noun born is
.whelped
English
Verb
(head)whelp
English
Noun
(en noun)- That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.
Derived terms
* fox whelp, fox-whelp, fox's whelp (foxling) * (Newfoundland) (l) * whelpling * wolf whelp, wolf-whelp, wolf's whelpSee also
* Guelf, Guelph * (l) * (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- The bitch whelped .
- The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.
References
born
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(wikipedia born)Etymology 1
From the verb (term).Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born' sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a ' born scoundrel.