Snappish bark

The answer

YAP

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YAP answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for YAP

Every other clue in this collection answered by YAP, most used first.

• Shrill bark - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Chatter - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Big fat mouth - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Jabber - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Mouth, slangily - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Big mouth - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Puppy sound - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Kisser - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
• Pound sound - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Bark - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
• Sharp bark - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Talk and talk and talk - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Kennel sound - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Go on and on - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Talk on and on - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Talk, talk, talk - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Talk too much - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Little dog's bark - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Talk incessantly - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Bark sharply - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Caroline island. - used 9 times, most recently in 1988
• One of the Carolines. - used 9 times, most recently in 1991
• Talk nonstop - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Beat one's gums - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• "Shut yer ___!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Slangy mouth - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• One of the Caroline Islands. - used 7 times, most recently in 1995
• Prattle - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Puppy cry - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Talk and talk - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Mouth off - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Pie hole - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Talk foolishly - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Shrill bark - YIP, used 59 times
• Comics bark - ARF, used 49 times
• Sandy's bark - ARF, used 24 times
• Puppy's bark - YIP, used 21 times
• Bark up the wrong tree - ERR, used 18 times
• Comic strip bark - ARF, used 18 times

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