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yaffle¹

  • /ˈjafl̩/ UK

Rhymes with -æfəl

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Imitative of the bird's cry.

noun yaffles

  1. UK, dialectal The European green woodpecker, Picus viridis. I remember the cry of the wood-peckers, or yaffils, as we call them in that country, going to roost in a pale autumnal evening[…].

    Similar: yaffingale, yaffler, woodall

verb yaffles · yaffling · yaffled

  1. intransitive Of the green woodpecker: to make its distinctive cry. Green woodpecker is not without options. Each year the builder comes to fix the house of the wooden roof. Green woodpecker watches then flies away, yaffling.

yaffle²

  • /ˈjafl̩/ UK

Rhymes with -æfəl

verb yaffles · yaffling · yaffled

  1. obsolete, slang To eat. At the mention of yaffling—the cant for eating—Ewan felt a pang of hunger in his belly.

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@misc{yaffle_2026,
  title = {yaffle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/yaffle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}