英语词汇“yaffingale”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	yaffingale
释义	yaffingale south. and s.w. dial.\|ˈjæfɪŋgeɪl\| Also 7 yippingale, 9 yelpingal, yappingal(e. [f. various echoic syllables with termination modelled on nightingale.] The green woodpecker; = yaffle n.¹ 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. vii. §5. H 5 b, The woodpecker or yippingale.1802[see yaffle n.¹].1865Cornh. Mag. July 35 Mr. Matthew Arnold has very justly praised Maurice de Guérin for speaking of the woodpecker's laugh. But the West-country peasant ages ago called it the ‘yaffingale’, that is, the laugh-singer.1866Blackmore Cradock Nowell i, The tap of the yaffingale.1871Tennyson Last Tourn. 696 The garnet-headed yaffingale.1888Berksh. Gloss., Yelpingal, the woodpecker.1906G. A. B. Dewar Faery Year 198 The statement of the gamekeeper that he had seen a ‘black yappingal’.
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