Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as yaffle. Also yappingale.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic the European green woodpecker, Picus viridis
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The yaffle.
Examples
“Never in all my wanderings afoot had I seen a yaffingale dusting himself like”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yaffingale’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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phrontistery-y
from phrontistery.info
yabba, yabby, yachty, yad, yaff, yaffingale, yag, yager, yahrzeit, yair, yajna, yakhdan and 63 more...
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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A Serving of Random Palavery
This is an eclectic and somewhat random list of words that catch and hold my attention. They may be archaic or disused, dialectal, jargon words from my fields of academic speciality (linguistics, ...
scraffle, infelicitous, misprize, defrock, caitiff, gimcrack, innerve, abjure, cyberchondriac, indurate, hexagynous, pistils and 146 more...
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gale force
farthingale, nightingale, martingale, submartingale, galingale, phascogale, petrogale, yaffingale, regale, loom-gale, potamogale, mygale and 2 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir Yes, yaffingale is yet another common name for the European green woodpecker. Jan 1, 2009
reesetee I think not. See yaffle. :-) May 3, 2008
mollusque You're slipping, reesetee! May 3, 2008