Meanings
plural yeldrins · alternative Scotland yoldrin · alternative Scotland yaldrin · alternative Scotland yowdrin · alternative Scotland yaldring
- ScotlandUKdateddialectalThe yellowhammer.
Bless the bramble and its berries —nor can we conjecture why it should be “a maltreated shrub,” any more than why the “Yellow Yeldrin” should in Scotland—and we believe in England too—be a maltreated bird.
1834, “The moral of flowers”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 35 (review of The Moral of Flowers by Rebecca Hey), page 811
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Origin
An alteration of the earlier yowlring, equivalent to yellow + ring.
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yeldrin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yeldrin
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