a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 59 The air was dirkit with the fowlis, That come with ȝawmeris and with ȝowlis.

1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 6002 in Wks. (1931) I Than sall those Creaturis forlorne Warie the hour that thay wer borne, With mony ȝamer, ȝewt, and ȝell.

1796 A. Wilson Watty & Meg 7 While the weans, wi' mornfu' yaummer, Round their sabbin' mother flew.

1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet ix Gin ye dinna tak' tent to yersel'..wi' yer eternal yammer o' ‘Peats, Jock Gordon’, an' ‘Water, Jock Gordon’, ye'll maybes find yersel' whaur Jock Gordon 'll no be there to serve ye.

1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song 16 There the din of the gulls is a yammer night and day.

1978 Poetry Mar. 328 They huddle, and their tabled ground rejoices To the flat yammer of their American voices.

1984 Washington Post 11 June b4/3 Diamanda Gala's score, consisting of shrieks, yammers, gasps and vocal but incoherent hysterics.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. i. 38 Greit figuris of wolfis..Ȝouland and ȝammerand grislie for to heyr.

c1550 Clariodus (1830) i. 24 The cairfull echo ȝalmering to the sky.

a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 123 Hoy, hurson, to hell,..Where deuils in their den dois ȝammar and ȝell.

1603 Proph. Waldhaue in Whole Prophesie Scotl. sig. B6 He yelped, he yalmered, and youled loude.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xx. 181 Like fiends yammering and girning when Hell wins a soul.

1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song 38 Her five bairns were all yammering blue murder at the same minute.

1952 W. R. Burnett Vanity Row viii. 73 Joe Sert yammering and getting purple in the face.

1958 ‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs xi. 125 Somewhere off in the eastern hills a coyote yammered with the crazed wildness which never fails to startle the oldest listener.

1959 W. H. Canaway Seal i. 16 His guts clanked and yammered like air-locked water-pipes.

1970 C. Sandburg Compl. Poems 372 They banged their spoons and bowls on the table And went on yammering for more to eat.

1980 F. Weldon Puffball 202 In the kitchen..Mabs' children yammered and cowered and snivelled and were slapped and shouted at.

1984 Times 5 Nov. 13/6 Just when women are yammering to be the hand that holds the briefcase..here's this little upstart letting the side down.

1775 ‘T. Bobbin’ Misc. Wks. 51 Boh I yammer t'hear heaw things turn'd eawt.

1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags xxiii When a' thae things are yammerin' to get haud o' ye.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vi. xvii. f. 78/1 Terribyl spraichis of ȝammeryng pepyll in the deidthraw.

1705 J. Dunton Life & Errors iv. 247 Mr. Ames..had always some Yammerings upon him after Learning and the Muses.

1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets iv. 35 A sucking Weanie..to its Yamering faws again.

1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 21 Our wee yen's yammerin' noise.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 486 Suppressed, discontented, yawmering..whiggism.

1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose viii The yammering of the baby.

1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags xxiii ‘Na, na’, he cried, in the strange yammering speech of the creature.

1937 J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit iv. 76 The yells and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering; howls, growls and curses; shrieking and skriking, that followed were beyond description.

1941 L. MacNeice Poems 1925–40 249 The city's Yammering fire alarms.

1969 M. Braithwaite Never sleep Three in Bed ix. 105 There was always so much yammering from us kids that no adult had a chance to say anything.

1977 Time 31 Jan. 43/3 Visitors..shepherded round the Acropolis by yammering guides.