yaffle /ˈjafl̩/noun 1verb 2forms 3 noun1 •(dialect, UK) The European green woodpecker, Picus viridis.I remember the cry of the wood-peckers, or yaffils, as we call them in that country, going to roost in a pale autumnal evening […]. — 1792 verb2 •Of the green woodpecker: to make its distinctive cry.Green woodpecker is not without options. Each year the builder comes to fix the house of the wooden roof. Green woodpecker watches then flies away, yaffling. — 2005 •(slang, no longer used) To eat.At the mention of yaffling—the cant for eating—Ewan felt a pang of hunger in his belly. — 2017 formsyaffled · yaffling · yaffles
