“yaffingale”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

yaffingale

释义

yaffingale south. and s.w. dial.|ˈjæfɪŋgeɪl|
Also 7 yippingale, 9 yelpingal, yappingal(e.
[f. various echoic syllables with termination modelled on nightingale.]
The green woodpecker; = yaffle n.¹
1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. vii. §5. H 5 b, The woodpecker or yippingale.1802[see yaffle n.¹].1865Cornh. Mag. July 35 Mr. Matthew Arnold has very justly praised Maurice de Guérin for speaking of the woodpecker's laugh. But the West-country peasant ages ago called it the ‘yaffingale’, that is, the laugh-singer.1866Blackmore Cradock Nowell i, The tap of the yaffingale.1871Tennyson Last Tourn. 696 The garnet-headed yaffingale.1888Berksh. Gloss., Yelpingal, the woodpecker.1906G. A. B. Dewar Faery Year 198 The statement of the gamekeeper that he had seen a ‘black yappingal’.

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