yellowhammer

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  1. noun A small bunting (Emberiza citrinella) of Europe and western Asia having bright yellow plumage on the head, neck, and breast.
  2. noun See yellow-shafted flicker.

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  • They recorded almost 3,000 birds from 23 different species, including five red-listed species of high conservation concern - the yellowhammer, the Eurasian tree sparrow, the corn bunting, Eurasian skylark and the common reed bunting. —  innovations-report
  • My petition is written on my bosom in red wounds COCKADILLO I am no barber-surgeon Exit Cockadillio BALTHAZAR You yellowhammer, why, shaver: that such poor things as these, only made up of tailor's shreds and merchant's silken rags and 'pothecary drugs to lend their breath sophisticated smells, when their rank guts stink worse than cowards in the heat of battle. —  The Noble Spanish Soldier
  • Bright as are the colours of the yellowhammer, when he alights among the brown clods of the ploughed field he is barely visible, for brown conceals like vapour. —  Nature Near London
  • The cross-bills are very pretty; the male and female quite opposite in colour, one having a lovely mixture of scarlet and orange on the breast and back, shading into greenish olive and brown; the other more like our yellowhammer, only it is not quite so bright in colour, though much softer, and more innocent-looking: they come to our windows and doors in the winter as familiarly as your robins. —  The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
  • The yellowhammer is almost the longest of all the singers; he sits and sits and has no inclination to move. —  The Life of the Fields
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  1. By folk etymology from earlier yelambre, perhaps from Middle English *yelwambre : yelow, yellow; see yellow + Old English amore, a kind of bird.

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  1. Cf. dial. yellowhomber, yellowomber; from yellow + hammer, properly ammer: see hammer.
 

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/ˈyɛloʊhæmər/
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