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yockel en · NOUN

Etymology

Variant of hickwall, influenced by yaffle.

Meanings

1. (UK, dialectal, rare) The yaffle or green woodpecker, Picus viridis.
   • Mr. F.C. Birkbeck Terry quoting from the Rev. C. Swainson's “Folklore of British Birds” gives yockel as the local Salopian name for the green woodpecker. ¶ Can any readers of Salopian Shreds and Patches give instances of localities for these names? May 19, 1886, W.B., “Shropshire Birds”, in Salopian Shreds and Patches, page 114:

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