yaffle

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Green-yellow, bursts from the copse the laughing yaffle;

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  1. The green woodpecker, Gecinus viridis: from its loud laughing notes. Also yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale. See cut under popinjay. [Provincial English] The Green Woodpecker, Gecinus or Picus viridis, though almost unknown in Scotland or Ireland, is the commonest; frequenting wooded districts, and more often heard than seen, its laughing cry (whence the name “Yaffil” or “Yaffle,” by which it is in many parts known) and undulating flight afford equally good means of recognition. Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 651.
  2. An armful. [Provincial English]
  3. A pile of codfish to be carried from the flakes to the storehouse. [Local, Massachusetts.]

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  1. Imitative; cf. yaff.
  2. Also yafful; origin obscure.
 

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