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yaffler dial. (ˈjæflə(r)) [f. yaffle v.1 + -er1.] The green woodpecker: = yaffle n.11802 [see yaffle n.1]. 1840 Macgillivray Brit. Birds III. 91 Picus viridis. The Green Woodpecker... Yaffler. Yappingale. 1863 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 70 Ta'n't a yaffler's [nest]; it's a black and white woodpec...
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yaffle
▪ I. yaffle, n.1 dial. (ˈjæf(ə)l) Also -el, -il. [Echoic of the laughing cry of the bird: cf. yaffle v.1 (See also hickwall.)] The green woodpecker.1792 C. Smith Desmond I. 173, I remember the cry of the wood-peckers, or yaffils, as we call them in that country [sc. Kent]. 1802 Montagu Ornith. Dict....
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Variation in Australian English
vocabulary also retains words from historic English dialects that have otherwise gone extinct - such as Jerry (fog), nointer (a mischievous child), and yaffler
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