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单词 yoldring
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yoldringn.

Brit. /ˈjəʊldrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈjoʊldrɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈjoldrɪŋ/, /ˈjoldrɪn/, Irish English /ˈjoʊldrɪŋ/
Forms: 1600s 1800s– yeldring, 1700s– yoldring, 1800s yaldran, 1800s yaldring, 1800s yelderin, 1800s yieldrin, 1800s– yaldrin, 1800s– yeldrin, 1800s– yoldrin, 1800s– youldring, 1900s– yalderin, 1900s– yaldren, 1900s– yilderin, 1900s– yowdrin, 1900s– yowdring.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: yowlring n.
Etymology: Variant of yowlring n., with excrescent d (between l and r ). Compare yorling n.
Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English (northern) Now archaic and rare.
The yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella (family Emberizidae). Also yellow yoldring.
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1699 R. Sibbald Provision for Poor ii. 19 The Common Linet, the Bunting, the Goldfinch, the Thistle Cock, the Yellow Yeldring.
1714 J. Bayne Short Introd. Lat. Gram. 106 A yellow Yeldring, Emberiza flava.
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Yold-ring, a yellow-hammer. North.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Yeldring..Children..often take the bare gorbals, or unfledged young, of this bird, and [etc.].
1810 R. Tannahill in Scots Mag. Jan. 48/1 While weary yeldrins seem to wail Their little nestlings torn.
1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 37 Three yaldrin's eggs.
1820 W. Scott Abbot II. ii. 43 You heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring.
1865 A. Smith A. Hagart's Househ. v The yellow yelderin builds in dry banks.
1928 Folk-lore 39 22 Near the house on another side is a field called ‘The Yeldernaker’, i.e. the field of the yeldring or yellow-hammer, long unknown there.
1992 G. Legman in V. Randolph & G. Legman Roll Me in your Arms xii. 101 This metaphor refers to the bird, the yoldring or yellowhammer or finch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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