What is YAPPING

OP couldn’t look it up, I guess. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yap

Yapping is talking unnecessarily. Usually to the annoyance of others.

There are layers so dogs bark. But tiny dogs that don't really bark with power but are more annoying that is a yap. When people gossip, a metaphor is that they are yapping, they are just annoyingly talking just to talk saying anything they are non-stop and keep going. In America a trend is that marginalized groups often turn insults into positives. So people that were insulted saying they yap too much, like an annoying little dog. Now it's almost like me and you are so close we can yap to each other and enjoy it. I love that you feel like you can yap to me, etc. So now when people get together just to talk, gossip, blab, tell stories, run their mouth, etc they might say "Yap".

I was trying to concentrate during my class, but the guys right behind me kept yapping(talking continuously and being annoying) and I couldn't hear the teacher.

Yapping is talking loudly for a long time without stopping. Here are some examples. The two dogs tapped all night at the neighbour's gate. The American women at the table next to us were yapping about all the amazing Iranian things they'd seen. Even the waiter only briefly interrupted them to take their order. Yap, yap, yap went the xenophobes with yet another tirade on immigrants.

‘Yap’ typically has a negative connotation and implies the speech is excessive, unnecessary, or annoying in some way. It has recently become popular in Internet slang to jokingly refer to someone talking in such a way, so a bit less negative but with a similar meaning. You might even see it on the Internet in ironic novel constructions, like “bro has a degree in yapology.” Don’t worry about learning to use those though, as they’ll likely stop being popular soon

Talk is a very old English verb used to denote human communication. Yap is a verb that originally denotes the sound that small dogs make when they communicate. Using yap to mean chat / talk, or as a noun to mean mouth, is negative and a dysphemism. It was originally used to imply that someone’s talk / communication was trivial or ineffective - the person talking is being compared to a small dog barking in short, high-pitched tones. This phrase is often used to devalue and ridicule women’s talk.

* **Talking** is a general term for communicating with others using words. It can be formal or informal, serious or lighthearted. "I was talking to my friend about my day." * **Yapping** is a more specific term for talking a lot about unimportant things. It can also be used to describe someone who is constantly complaining or criticizing. "I was getting annoyed by the person yapping on and on about their problems." In general, talking is a more positive term, while yapping is more negative.

Yapping is talking to the point of annoyance. A good example is when someone just won’t stop talking about their day or something

We refer to small dogs that are barking a lot as yapping or being yappy. Sometimes we'll say that about people. A person who yaps is someone who talks a lot. To ladies yapping are two ladies who are talking a lot. It's talking incessantly, like a small dog barks.

Yapping is the noise that small dogs make. Big dogs bark, little dogs yap. So when you say someone is yapping you mean they sound like an annoying small dog.