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  • yellow-breast
    (Exuma, Nassau); yellow-chest (Eleu.)  [from its plumage] n. a bird, the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola): 1977 (Albury 27). BAHAMA SPARROW, BANANA
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  • yellow bird
    [OED, DAB different sp.] n. a bird, Dendroica petechia: 1972 (Paterson 137). = CHIP-CHIP (Gen.)
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  • yellow
    See YALLER.
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  • Yeho
    /yéy(h)ow/ [cf. W Car. Yaho or Yoho idem (Holm 1978:214); cf. OED yahoo name invented by Swift in Gulliver's Travels
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  • yeel
    [OED idem obs. → 17th century] n. an eel: A yeel is a long fish like a snake that lives
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  • years
    See EARS.
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  • year-'ole
    /yir owl/ [cf. OED year ear obs. → 16th century, also Brit. dial. West year-hole idem EDD] n. ear. (Exuma,
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  • yeah!
    [cf. US Black yeah! exclamation of approval (Gold)] intj. hello! (said with special intonation and often an accompanying guesture) (youth
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  • ye
    /yiy/ [OED now in all uses dial. arch., or poet.  cf. US dial. /ya/ ADD] obj. pron. (second person) you:
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  • yarns
    [from the mass noun] count n., pl. strands of yarn: 1977 Old rope was taken apart and the good was
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