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yaffil

yaffil is the obsolete form of yaffle.

Meaning of yaffle

Noun

yaffle (plural yaffles)

  1. (UK, dialectal) The European green woodpecker, Picus viridis.
    • I remember the cry of the wood-peckers, or yaffils, as we call them in that country, going to roost in a pale autumnal evening […].1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 114

See all 3 meanings of yaffle

Forms of yaffil

pluralyaffils

Questions about yaffil

What is yaffil the obsolete form of?
Yaffil is the obsolete form of yaffle.

Words near yaffil in the dictionary

  1. YAF
  2. yaff
  3. Yaffe
  4. yaffed
  5. Yaffes
  6. yaffil
  7. yaffing
  8. yaffingale
  9. yaffingales
  10. yaffle
  11. yaffled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yaffil (page history and authors); yaffle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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