yeldrin
yeldrin noun: the yellowhammer.
Noun
yeldrin (plural yeldrins)
- The yellowhammer.
- Bless the bramble and its berries —nor can we conjecture why it should be “a maltreated shrub,” any more than why the “Yellow Yeldrin” should in Scotland—and we believe in England too—be a maltreated bird.1834, “The moral of flowers”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 35 (review of The Moral of Flowers by Rebecca Hey), page 811
Forms of yeldrin
| plural | yeldrins |
|---|---|
| alternative Scotland | yoldrin |
| alternative Scotland | yaldrin |
| alternative Scotland | yowdrin |
| alternative Scotland | yaldring |
Origin of yeldrin
An alteration of the earlier yowlring, equivalent to yellow + ring.
Questions about yeldrin
- What does yeldrin mean?
- Yeldrin means the yellowhammer.
- What part of speech is yeldrin?
- Yeldrin is a noun.
- What is the plural of yeldrin?
- The plural of yeldrin is yeldrins.
Words near yeldrin in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: yeldrin (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “yeldrin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yeldrin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.