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YAFFLE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of YAFFLE is green woodpecker.
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yaffler - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · (archaic) the European green woodpecker, Picus viridis · (archaic, Tasmania, slang) A loud-mouthed, obnoxious person. Synonyms. edit. (Picus viridis) ...
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yaffler, n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the noun yaffler is in the 1800s. OED's earliest evidence for yaffler is from 1802, in a dictionary by George Montagu, naturalist ...
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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 definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
noun a European woodpecker, Picus viridis, with a dull green back and wings and a red crown Collins English Dictionary.
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Yaffler Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
Yaffler Definition ... (archaic) The European green woodpecker, Picus viridis. Wiktionary. Other Word Forms of Yaffler. Noun. Singular: yaffler. Plural: yafflers ...
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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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Yaffle, Gowk, and Howlet. - by Sarah Crowder - One Stone
Woodpecker - Some old colloquial names for the Green woodpecker are Yaffler, Yaffle, and Popinjay. The name Yaffle is because that's just what ...
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"YAFFLE": Loud call of a woodpecker - OneLook
noun: (UK, dialectal) The European green woodpecker, Picus viridis. verb: (intransitive) Of the green woodpecker: to make its distinctive cry.
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yaffle, v.¹ - Green's Dictionary of Slang
G. Seal Lingo 29: In tassie they have some quaintly appealing words like a yaffler for someone who talks too much and too loudly (probably from the 18th-century ...
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yaffle, n.¹ meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
The green woodpecker. 1792. I remember the cry of the wood-peckers, or yaffils , as we call them in that country [sc. Kent] ...
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Woodpecker Yaffle Jam - Facebook
Green woodpeckers have weak bills, and only rarely drum on wood. However, their loud vocalizations (called yaffling) attracts a lot of attention.
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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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