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Definition: YELLOWHAMMER |
YELLOWHAMMERNoun1. The flicker. 2. A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark. |
Etymology: Yellowhammer \Yel"low*ham`mer\, noun. [For yellow-ammer, where ammer is from Anglo-Saxon amore a kind of bird; akin to German ammer a yellow-hammer, Old High German amero.]. (references) |
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Literature | Yellowhammer (The). The eggs of this bird are spotted with red. The tradition is that the bird fluttered about the Cross, and got stained with the blood in its plumage, and by way of punishment its eggs were doomed ever after to bear marks of blood. 'Tis a very lame story, but helps to show how in former times every possible thing was made to bear some allusion to the Redeemer. Because the bird was "cursed," boys who abstain from plundering the eggs of small birds, were taught that it is as right and proper to destroy the eggs of the bunting as to persecute a Jew. (See Christian Traditions. ) Hammer is a corruption of the German ammer, a bunting. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Emberiza citrinella |
It breeds across Europe and much of Asia. Most birds are resident, but some far northern birds migrate south in winter. It is common in all sorts of open areas with some scrub or trees.
The Yellowhammer is a robust bird, with a thick seed-eater's bill. The male has a bright yellow head, yellow underparts, and a heavily streaked brown back. The female is much duller, and more streaked below.
The familiar, if somewhat monotonous, song of the cock is A little bit of bread and no cheese.
Its natural food consists of insects when feeding young, and otherwise seeds. The nest is on the ground. 3-6 eggs are laid, which show the hair-like markings characteristic of those of buntings.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yellowhammer."
Crosswords: YELLOWHAMMER |
| Specialty definitions using "YELLOWHAMMER": Christian Traditions. (references) |
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| "YELLOWHAMMER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "YELLOWHAMMER" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
yellowhammer | 18 |
bird yellowhammer | 3 |
state yellowhammer | 3 |
information yellowhammer | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "YELLOWHAMMER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gulspurv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geelgors. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سهره اروپاءی(ج.ش.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | keltasirkku. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bruant jaune (yellow hammer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | goldhammer, Goldammer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρυσοτσίχλονο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | citromsármány. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | zigolo giallo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jallyn buigh (yellow bunting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yellowhammeray escrevedeira amarela. (various references) овсянка (grits, oatmeal). (various references) escribano cerillo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Emberiza citrinella, RM:marena d'aur. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "YELLOWHAMMER": yellowhammers. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-l-l-m-m-o-r-w-y" | |
-4 letters: hallower, mealworm, mellower, yellower. | |
-5 letters: armhole, eelworm, hellery, loyaler, morally, morelle, myeloma, rollway, walleye, wommera. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-l-l-m-m-o-r-w-y" | |
+1 letter: yellowhammers. | |
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