Yeldrin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The yellowhammer. Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal

    "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."

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yellowhammer

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"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."

Etymology

Alteration of earlier yowlring, equivalent to yellow + ring.

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