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yaffling

yaffling is the present participle and gerund of yaffle.

Meaning of yaffle

Verb (1)

yaffle (third-person singular simple present yaffles, present participle yaffling, simple past and past participle yaffled)

  1. (intransitive) Of the green woodpecker: to make its distinctive cry.
    • Green woodpecker is not without options. Each year the builder comes to fix the house of the wooden roof. Green woodpecker watches then flies away, yaffling.2005, Tim Kendall, Strange Land, page 13

Verb (2)

yaffle (third-person singular simple present yaffles, present participle yaffling, simple past and past participle yaffled)

  1. (obsolete, slang) To eat.
    • At the mention of yaffling—the cant for eating—Ewan felt a pang of hunger in his belly.2017, Vanessa Kelly, Shana Galen, Anna Campbell, Kate Noble, A Grosvenor Square Christmas

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Questions about yaffling

What is yaffling the present participle and gerund of?
Yaffling is the present participle and gerund of yaffle.

Words near yaffling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yaffling (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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