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- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - 73/73 -
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. TO YELP. 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? TO YOWL. To cry aloud, or howl. ZAD. Crooked like the letter Z. He is a mere zad, or perhaps zed; a description of a very crooked or deformed person. ZANY. The jester, jack pudding, or merry andrew, to a mountebank. ZEDLAND. Great part of the west country, where the letter Z is substituted for S; as zee for see, zun for sun,
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