Meaning & use
Yaffle
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A British dialect name for the green woodpecker, inspired by the bird's loud, laughing call.
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The old countryman still called the green woodpecker a yaffle, as his grandfather had.
A yaffle's laughing cry echoed through the orchard on a warm spring morning.
A note on using this word
An onomatopoeic word imitating the bird's distinctive, laugh-like call, still used in English rural dialect and nature writing.
Words with a similar meaning
green woodpecker
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