yaffle

If a corpse be kept over a Sunday another death will occur before the week is out; should a big bumble-bee enter the window, a guest may be expected; and when the woodpecker, commonly called the yaffle, laughs, they say the rain is coming.

English Villages 1892

I might start using it in my ESL classes so that a new generation of Koreans will know the proper English terminology for an 'armful of something' is a 'yaffle'.

Archive 2009-05-01 gregarious monk 2009

I might start using it in my ESL classes so that a new generation of Koreans will know the proper English terminology for an 'armful of something' is a 'yaffle'.

Cockles, no Mussels, Alive, Alive, O gregarious monk 2009

Behind the hill, behind the trees, the green woodpecker – the yaffle – shouts his mocking, laugh-like call which in country weather lore is a sure sign of rain.

Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2010

Green-yellow, bursts from the copse the laughing yaffle;

Love in the Valley 1919

Green-yellow, bursts from the copse the laughing yaffle;

Love in the Valley 1909

From above the hedges the sleepy cows looked down; a yaffle laughed a field or two away; in the sycamores, which had come out before their time, the bees hummed.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

From above the hedges the sleepy cows looked down; a yaffle laughed a field or two away; in the sycamores, which had come out before their time, the bees hummed.

The Country House John Galsworthy 1900

Green-yellow, bursts from the copse the laughing yaffle;

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

a rattle, what a yaffle — as they call the woodpecker, the laughing bird that flits from tree to tree.

Between the Acts 2004