单词 | yaffler |
释义 | yafflern. dialect. The green woodpecker: = yaffle n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) > picus viridis (green woodpecker) rain-fowl1440 woodwall1490 speight1513 hickwall?1533 rainbird1544 woodspite1555 green-peak1598 yaffingale1609 pick-a-tree1615 witwall1668 storm cock1769 nicker-pecker1787 yaffle1792 awl-bird1802 popinjay1802 yaffler1802 dirt-bird1847 yuckle1847 stock eagle1884 nicker1886 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Woodpecker—Green Green Woodpecker... Yappingale. Yaffle, or Yaffler. 1840 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds III. 91 Picus viridis. The Green Woodpecker... Yaffler. Yappingale. 1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 70 Ta'n't a yaffler's [nest]; it's a black and white woodpecker's. 1906 Sat. Rev. 10 Feb. 169/1 I thought that would touch you, woodpecker! Ha, ha, ha—who's the yaffler now? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1802 |
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