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▪ I. yaffle, n.1 dial.|ˈjæf(ə)l|
Also -el, -il.
[Echoic of the laughing cry of the bird: cf. yaffle v.1 (See also hickwall.)]
The green woodpecker.
1792C. Smith Desmond I. 173, I remember the cry of the wood-peckers, or yaffils, as we call them in that country [sc. Kent]. 1802Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1831) 385 Green Woodpecker... Yappingale. Yaffle or Yaffler. 1856Kingsley South Wind ii. Poems (1889) 292 O blessed yaffil, laughing loud! 1893D. Jordan & Jean A. Owen Forest Tithes 126 On their grey trunks the yaffle shins about, yells, laughs, and yikes to his heart's content.
▪ II. yaffle, n.2 dial.
[f. yaffle v.1]
1. A bark, a yelp.
1836Fraser's Mag. XIII. 662 My faithful dog..sent up a loud ‘yaffle’. 1856Aird Winter Day Poet. Wks. 192 The petulant yaffle of the cottage cur.
2. The call of the green woodpecker.
1955D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles IV. 77 It [sc. the green woodpecker] is a bird which attracts attention by its loud cry or ‘yaffle’. 1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 12 Nov. 18/4 The yaffle of a green woodpecker and needle-like sounds from the tits and goldcrests.
▪ III. yaffle, n.3 dial. (now chiefly Newfoundland).|ˈjæf(ə)l|
Also yaffel, yafful.
[App. orig. a West Country word (see Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Yafful), of unknown origin: cf. -ful.]
A handful; an armful, esp. (in Newfoundland) of dried fish or kindling.
1842H. J. Daniel Bride of Scio 180 Thee'rt but a yaffle, and most nashun light. 1862in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 621/2 Having purloined a quantity, known in this land as a yaffle of dry fish. 1880Courtney & Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 30/1 Jaffle, a handful: generally applied to a bunch of flowers... Jeffull, Yaffle, handful. ‘Jeffulls of hay.’ Ibid. 108 Yafful, arms full. 1966A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 83 Ned plumped another yaffel (armful) of fish on the culling board. 1983Daily Tel. 25 June 15/4 They're still trying to figure out how a yaffle of wood, which means an armload, can be converted into grams.
▪ IV. yaffle, v.1 dial.
[Echoic.]
intr. a. To bark sharply, as a dog; to yelp. (Cf. yaff v.) b. To talk indistinctly, to mumble. c. Of a woodpecker: To utter its characteristic cry. (Cf. yaffle n.1, yaffler.) Hence ˈyaffling ppl. a.
1847Halliwell, Yaffle,..to bark. Same as Yaff. 1848A. B. Evans Leicestersh. Words, Yaffle, to yelp, or bark like a little dog... A yaffling little cur. 1875Anderida xvi. II. 26 Then came three or four sounding taps from a woodpecker's beak, and a yaffling laugh as he flew away. 1887L'pool Daily Post 12 Aug. 4/5 Yaffling little pet dogs.
▪ V. yaffle, v.2 dial.|ˈjæf(ə)l, ˈjɒf(ə)l|
Also yoffle.
[Echoic.]
intr. To eat or drink, esp. noisily or greedily.
1788Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Yaffling, eating. a1821J. W. Masters Dick & Sal at Canterbury Fair in Parish & Shaw Dict. Kentish Dialect. (1887) p. xx, Sa when we lickt de platters out, An yoffled down de beer. a1935T. E. Lawrence Mint (1955) viii. 30 You bloody swaddies can't half yaffle.
▪ VI. yaffle, v.3 dial. (now chiefly Newfoundland).|ˈjæf(ə)l|
[f. *yaffle n.3]
trans. To gather up (a load of fish, etc.) in one's arms. Also absol.
1891in Cent. Dict. s.v., To transport yaffles of fish: as, ‘now, boys, go to yaffling’. 1891in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 622/1 Her beau who daily ‘yaffles’ fish. 1895J. Thomas Randigal Rhymes 22 For with the furze they yaffled in A lot of dirty looch. 1979A. M. Tizzard On Sloping Ground 295 My father would be down in the punt while I yaffled the fish and threw it down to him. |