Yeorling

Quick meaning: Yeorling is a noun meaning (Scotland) The yellowhammer.

Meaning

(Scotland) The yellowhammer.

Example Sentences

The brock, the toad, and the yellow yeorling Get a drap o' the de'il's bluid ilka May morning.

Then they listened to a yeorling and Will taught the child its song, "A little bit of bread and no che-e-ese.

I asked Thady a minute later what nests he knew of. "Galore," he answered, grinning. And then proceeded to enumerate them : " A lintie (a linnet), a green grosbeak (greenfinch), a Harry redcap (goldfinch), a yellow yeorling by the roadside, a scobby (chaffinch), a lavrock (skylark), a cushie-doo (a wood pigeon), a cutty wren (common wren), a nanny washtail (pied wagtail) in the rocks, and two tom-titers of sorts.

Word Forms

• yeorlings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include yorling, yite, yowley, yelamber, yellow-hammer, ammer.

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