Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A simplified spelling of yell.

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  • verb Obsolete spelling of yell.

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Examples

  • No worse than the republicons in congress – and more sense than to yel at a president that he is lying when he saying something true ...

    Traficant mulling another run for Congress 2009

  • I don't get why he has placed his cad. orange to the right of his yellow ochre (btwn cad. yel.), instead of to it's left (btwn raw sienna)? just curious-RQ

    Rockwell’s Palette James Gurney 2010

  • He liked the way the torchlight brought out the yel - low in Damaris's hair.

    Stalling 2010

  • He saw a gnome, dressed in baggy, green pants, a dirty, yel - low shirt, a blue apron, and an orange hat.

    Stalling 2010

  • The eyes were yel - low and cold, and darted from person to person like a snake's tongue beneath razor-thin brows.

    Stalling 2010

  • Ai bin heer nd in Santacruz obur 70 yeerz. uzed tu yel at kid “wut yu duing tu nok hous down liek dat?”

    How the Welsh language - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • It iz genrully considerd bad form 2 yel “FIRST” or ennyfing lyke dat.

    Spider cat, Spider cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Olivia Sinclair was sitting on top of the covers in her yel - low nightgown.

    Honeymoon Patterson, James 2005

  • Otherwise, I doubt that yel - low Formica countertops were somehow the rage again.

    Honeymoon Patterson, James 2005

  • The bright yel - low firelight soon reflected off of rank upon rank of black-armored, steel-tipped death.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

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