What does yaffle mean?
Yaffle means (UK, dialectal) The European green woodpecker, Picus viridis..
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/ˈjafl̩/ · noun
(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 […].
“‘Punched that rotton strap,’ he goes on saying, ‘like a gret ol' yaffle punchin' a 'ollow log!’”
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.
At the mention of yaffling—the cant for eating—Ewan felt a pang of hunger in his belly.
You're growing squab yaffling our food and then lazing in the hallway.
Use yaffle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Yaffle means (UK, dialectal) The European green woodpecker, Picus viridis..
Common synonyms include yaffingale, yaffler, woodall.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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 […].
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