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Webster 1913 Edition

Yowley

Yow′ley

,

Noun.

[Cf.

.]

(Zool.)

The European yellow-hammer.

[Prov. Eng.]

Definition 2024

yowley

yowley

English

Noun

yowley ‎(plural yowleys)

(dated, Britain, dialect) The European yellowhammer.
- 1863, Edward Corvan, A choice collection of Tyneside songs (page 56)
  They're just as feerce as untyem'd goats, / An' all liked sowlgers dress'd; / They've a bunch ov hair upon their jaws / Just like a yowley's nest.

Usage notes

Often yellow yowley.