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yaffles

yaffles is the plural of yaffle.

yaffles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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Questions about yaffles

What is yaffles the plural of?
Yaffles is the plural of yaffle.

Words near yaffles in the dictionary

  1. yaffingales
  2. yaffle
  3. yaffled
  4. yaffler
  5. yafflers
  6. yaffles
  7. yaffling
  8. yaffs
  9. Yafi
  10. Yafo
  11. yafsoanite

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