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- Yaffling
- Eating. CANT.
- Yam, To
- To eat or stuff heartily.
- Yankey
- or YANKEY DOODLE. A booby, or country lout: a name given to the New England men in North America. A general appellation for an American.
- Yarmouth Capon
- A red herring: Yarmouth is a famous place for curing herrings.
- Yarmouth Coach
- A kind of low two-wheeled cart drawn by one horse, not much unlike an Irish car.
- Yarmouth Pye
- A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annually to the king.
- Yarum
- Milk. CANT.
- Yea and Nay Man
- A quaker, a simple fellow, one who can only answer yes, or no.
- Yellow
- To look yellow; to be jealous. I happened to call on Mr. Green, who was out: on coming home, and finding me with his wife, he began to look confounded blue, and was, I thought, a little yellow.
- Yellow Belly
- A native of the Fens of Licoinshire; an allusion to the eels caught there.
- Yellow Boys
- Guineas.
- Yelp, To
- To cry out. Yelper; a town cryer, also one apt to make great complaints on trifling occasions.
- Yest
- A contraction of yesterday.
- Yoked
- Married. A yoke; the quantum of labour performed at one spell by husbandmen, the day's work being divided in summer into three yokes. Kentish term.
- Yorkshire Tyke
- A Yorkshire clown. To come Yorkshire over any one; to cheat him.
- Young One
- A familiar expression of contempt for another's ignorance, as "ah! I see you're a young one." How d'ye do, young one?
- Yowl, To
- To cry aloud, or howl.