However, we found a citation from 1941: 'The match consumed three hours and thirty minutes, most of it because Cobb, the tingling-nerved old baseball Tiger, got the ' yips' on many greens and would step back and line up his putts several times per putt.' The yips are 'nervousness or tension that causes an athlete to fail to perform effectively, especially in missing short putts in golf.' As we mentioned in a Word Soup column back in November, some sources, including the OED, cite the first known use of the yips as 1962. Yip is imitative in origin but probably also influenced by the 16th century yelp, which has an even older meaning of 'boasting, vainglorious speaking.' Yawp is even older, coming about in the 14th century, but now is primarily associated with Walt Whitman's late 19th century ' barbaric yawp.' Associated with the 19th-century Western United States possibly influenced by a line, yippee yi yo kayah, from a 1930s song. The more well-known meaning, to emit a high-pitched bark, came about around 1907, as per the OED, and gained the figurative meaning 'to shout to complain.'

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