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▪ I. yolky, a.1|ˈjəʊkɪ|
Also 6 yelky, 9 yoky.
[f. yolk n.1 + -y1.]
a. Resembling or consisting of (egg) yolk; of or pertaining to yolk; full of or abounding in yolk.
1528[see yolkiness]. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 9 Yelky choler, like to the yelkes of egges. 1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. 147 The seconde [melancholy]..is compact and made of yealowe or yolkie Choler aduste. 1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 80 Vield's eggs was more yokier than their's was. 1889Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. May 11 Small round, highly refractive yolky particles were present in the egg protoplasm. 1918W. J. Locke Rough Road ix. 104 With a hazardous plunge of his spoon he had made a yellow yelky horror of the egg-shell.
b. in reference to stone or other mineral: cf. yolk n.1 4 b. yolky-stone, a local name for a kind of conglomerate.
1805Mushet in Phil. Trans. XCV. 167 The fracture [of the bars] was gray, tore out a little in breaking, but was otherwise yolky and excessively dense. 1813J. Headrick Agric. Angus 34 Beds of coarse pudding-stone, or gravel, or yolky-stone, as it is here called.
▪ II. yolky, a.2|ˈjəʊkɪ|
Also yoky.
[OE. eow(o)ciᵹ, f. *eowoca yolk n.2: see -y1 1.]
Containing ‘yolk’; greasy with yolk, as unwashed wool.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 42 Ᵹenim ele, do on mid eowociᵹ re wulle. Ibid. 74 Mid eowciᵹre wulle. 1847Halliwell, Yoky-wool, unwashed wool as it comes from the sheep's back. Devon. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Yolk, the grease of wool. Wool that is oily is said to be yolky. 1886C. Scott Sheep-farming 130 The fleece falls to pieces in a vexatious fashion on the table, especially if the sheep has been fed for the shambles, or is naturally very yolky. |