yiten.
/jʌɪt/ dialect.
The yellow-hammer, Emberiza citrinella.
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1812 P. Forbes Poems 104 Herryin' linties, yites an' kays.
1830 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianæ l, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 918 Lark, lintie, yellow-yite,..shilfa, and goldfinch.
1888 J. M. Barrie Auld Licht Idylls ii. 54 I have known a black-fishing expedition stopped because a ‘yellow yite’, or yellowhammer, hovered round the gang when they were setting out.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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