单词 | yellow yorling |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow yorling More fully yellow yorling. The yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Emberiza > emberiza citrinella (yellow-hammer) yellowhammer1538 yellow ham1544 yowlring1544 goldhammer1611 yellow-pate1612 yellow ambird1657 yorling1679 yoldring1699 goldspink1785 yowley1797 yite1812 devil's bird1837 writing master1840 ammer1843 goldie1865 1679 A. Lovell tr. F. Pomey Indiculus Universalis 31 A Yellow-hammer or Yourling [L. Florus; Fr. Bruant]. 1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 151 Should at his feet a scared yorlin bir. 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake ii. xiii. 176 It was only to hear the Yorlin sing. 1861 J. C. Atkinson Brit. Birds' Eggs & Nests 50 I used to hear in Berwickshire, that ‘The Brock, the Toad, and the Yellow Yeörling, Get a drap o' the Deil's bluid ilka May morning.’ 1884 Chambers' Jrnl. 12 July 436/1 I cannot possibly carry the egg home unbroken, and so return it to its place..where..it will produce its gaping addition to the family of yorlings. 1912 R. Mayne Drone in Drone & Other Plays 10 Ach. You've no more head than a yellow yorling. 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 4 An a feelin-herteet yallih-yorleen, hippin alang the deike. 1993 J. Alder Birds & Flowers Castle Mey 66/1 They [sc. yellow buntings] are also called ‘yellow yowlring’, while ‘yarlin’ is heard near the Castle of Mey. 2014 Stirling Observer (Nexis) 1 Aug. 26 There is still some work to do for the yellow yorlings, the ‘horrid yellow yorlings’ as legend has it. < as lemmas |
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