yockel

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yockel

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Variant of hickwall, influenced by yaffle.

noun yockels

UK, dialectal, rare The yaffle or green woodpecker, Picus viridis. Mr. F.C. Birkbeck Terry quoting from the Rev. C. Swainson's “Folklore of British Birds” gives yockel as the local Salopian name for the green woodpecker. ¶ Can any readers of Salopian Shreds and Patches give instances of localities for these names?

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@misc{yockel_2026,
  title = {yockel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/yockel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}