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- -y
- ya, yare, yere
- Yabby
- yakee
- yaller
- yam
- Yankee
- yard
- yard boy
- yard toilet
- yarns
- ye
- yeah!
- year-'ole
- years
- yeel
- Yeho
- yellow
- yellow bird
- yellow folk
- yellow grits
- yellow jack
- yellow nicker (tree)
- yellow popper
- yellow sponge
- yellow stingray
- yellow tail
- yellow tail snapper
- yellow vine
- yellow-breast
- yellow-mouth grouper
- yellow-mouth grunt
- yellow-tail stripe
- yellow-wing
- yellow-wing jack
- yerry
- yesterday-day-before
- yet
- yeye
- yiddy
- yinna, yeener, yenner, yonner, you-no
- yinnaself
- Yiya
- Ynagua
- Yoruba, Youraba
- you ain't want do no better
- you and all!
- you do for more
- you do well
- you good for yourself
- you mussy wanna shit
- you, yuh
- you-all
- you-all self
- you-nay
- you-nay selves
- young blood
- young corn
- young heads
- young machioneel
- young moon
- young-blooded
- yourns
- youth boy
- Yucaya
- yuck
- yuck somebody up (Gen.); yuck up somebody's vexation
- yucksing /yóksin/, yooksing /yúksin/
- yucksome
- Yumeta
- Yumey
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Definitions starting with Y
yard
[Car.; OED, a barnyard; an enclosed area with grass and trees adjoining a house (now dial. and US)] n. 1. the area around a dwelling, including the area for poultry, livestock, etc.: 1888 Gardens are called yards in Nassau... I am told the same word is in common use in the United States (Powles 29). On the sidewalk, and the Hotel Yards, Straw Vendors show their work to da waiting crowd (Brown 39). (Gen.)
2. a tract of forest or scrubland: We had the hurricane blow up in the big yard (Acklins). cf. PINE YARD
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Last update: 2010-11-01 02:43
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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