Old English | sb | English |
Ye | prn | Thou. |
Yea | interj | Interjection expressing assent to a statement or command; truly, verily. 2. yes, indeed. |
Yea and nay | adj | Indefinite and indeterminate, shilly-shally, vacillating, ambiguous, undecided, expedient. |
Yea and nayer | n | A fence-sitter, waverer, one who vacillates, sways, quakes or hesitates. |
Yea and Nays | n | Affirmative and negative votes. |
Yea-forsooth | adj | pertaining to or indicative of one who say 'yea' & 'forsooth', not belonging to genteel society, as a coarse, yea-forsooth rascal. |
Yeah | adv | Colloquial form of 'yes'. |
Yean | vb | Bringing forth a lamb or kid. 2. pregnant. |
Yeanling | n | A young lamb or kid. |
Yea nayish | adj | Somewhat indefinite or vacillating. |
Year | n | 1. Any of various calendar units based on the time the earth takes to revolve once around the sun, especially: in the Gregorian calendar, a period beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31, consisting of 365 or 366 days in 12 months. 2. a period of 365 or 366 days used as the basis for another calendar such as the Julian calendar. 3. a sidereal year. 4. a solar year. 5. period of about a year. 6. a period equal to the calendar year but beginning on a different date: a tax-reckoning year; a farming year. 7. an annually recurring period devoted to a special activity: the school year. 8. age, especially old age. 9. years as an indefinitely long period of time: it's been years since we saw her. |
Year | phr | "In the Year Of the Lord" - in a year specified Ad. |
Year | phr | "Of the Year" - chosen as outstanding in a particular year. |
Year | phr | "Year after Year" - continually over years. |
Year | phr | "Year and a Day" - a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be served beyond all. |
Year | phr | "Year in, Year Out" - continually over years. |
Year | phr | "Year on Year" - year after year. |
Yearbook | n | An annual publication dealing with events or aspects of the usual preceding year. |
Yearbookish | adj | Prepared in a manner somewhat resembling a yearbook. |
Year-day | n | An anniversary of birth, death, or marriage, or any memorable event in a family or nation. |
Yeared | adj | Containing years, having existed or been for many years; aged. |
Year-end | n | The end of esp. the financial year. |
Yearful | adj | Desirous. |
Yearling | n | An animal between one and two years old. 2. |
Yearling | adj | a year old having existed or being such for a year. 2. intended to terminate after one year. |
Yearlong | adj | Lasting a year or the whole year. 2. continually through the year. |
Yearly | adj | one, produced or occurring once a year. 2. lasting a year. |
Yearly | adv | Once a year; from year to year. |
Yearman | n | Someone in a particular year of study. |
Yearmark | n | An inscription on a coin indicating the year in which the coin was either produced or issued. |
Yearmind | n | The commemoration of a deceased person by requiem services on the first or on each anniversary of her or his death. |
Yearn | vb | Have a strong emotional longing towards. 2. filled with compassion or tenderness. |
Yearner | n | One who yearns or longs emotionally and strongly. |
Yearnful | adj | Desirous. |
Yearnfully | adv | In a desirous or longing manner. |
Yearning | n | A strong emotion of longing or desire, especially with tenderness. |
Yearningly | adv | With yearning, with desire, longingly. |
Year-on-year | adj | Year over year and compared with the same period in previous years. |
Year-old | sfx | A suffix used to indicate the age of someone or something, in terms of years. |
Yearward | adv | In direction of the year as a whole, towards the remainder of the year. |
Yea-sayer | n | One who agrees or assents, one who is always |
Yea-saying | n | Acquiesence, to agree to a statement even when in doubt. |
Yearward | adv | In the direction of the year as a whole; toward the remainder of the year. |
Yeast | n | Substance produced in the forming of alcohol by certain liquids, used in bread making |
Yeast-bitten | adj | When the froth of the beer has entered the body of the beer. |
Yeasted | adj | Made with yeast or having yeast as an ingredient. |
Yeastily | adv | In a yeasty manner. |
Yeastiness | n | State or condition of being yeasty. |
Yeastless | adj | Without or not containing yeast. |
Yeastlike | adj | Resembling yeast or haracteristic of yeast in some aspect. |
Yeasty | adj | Frothy or tasting like yeast. 2. in a ferment. 3. working like yeast. 4. of talk; light and superficial. |
Yeaword | n | Appeasement |
Yedding | n | A speech, a long discourse, a spree, a gest or tale or verse of romance. |
Yeie | vb | Cry out, bark, blaspheme |
Yeke | n | Cuckoo. 2. fool, simpleton, bastard |
Yekth | n | Itch. itching |
Yeld | adj | Of an animal: barren, one passed the time for having young, or too young to bear young. 2. Cattle not yielding milk. Fig., unproductive, effete |
Yell | n | A loud strident cry or noise; yelling. |
Yell | vb | To utter or omit a strident cry, esp. because of a some sudden emotion such as rage, horror, hurt, agony. 2.To sing loudly or chant. |
Yeller | n | Someone who communicates in a loud voice. |
Yelling | n | To cry out loudly as in pain, fright, surprise, enthusiasm or a cheer uttered or chanted in unison. |
Yellow | n | Colour of gold, butter, egg-yolk. 2. Primary colour in the spectrum of blue and orange. |
Yellow | phr | "Be Yellow" - be scared to do something; cringe, act cowardly. |
Yellow-back | n | A cheap novel, esp. in a yellow cover; a pot-boiler, penny dreadful. |
Yellow belly | n | A coward. 2. in times past a person born in the fens of Lincolnshire (from the sickly yellow complexion of persons residing in marshy living-places.) |
Yellow-earth | n | Yellowish clay, coloured by iron, used as pigment. |
Yellowed | adj | having a yellowy color, esp. due to aging. |
Yellow-evil | n | Jaundice |
Yellow-gold | n | The purest gold of all. |
Yellow-green | adj | Of a pale apple-green color; chartreuse. |
Yellow-haired | adj | Blonde, golden-haired |
Yellowing | n | The act of becoming yellow. |
Yellowish | adj | Somewhat yellow in colour, yellowly. 2. tinged with yellow. |
Yellowishly | adv | having a colour resembling yellow. |
Yellowishness | n | The property of having a slight or moderate shade of yellow. |
Yellow-livered | adj | Cowardly, weak-kneed, meek. |
Yellow rain | n | Often in Fir forests the pollen is given off into the air in such enormous quantities that it is washed down by the rain as a yellow powder and is popularly known as Sulphur rain or Yellow rain. |
Yellowred | adj | Of a colour between yellow and red: orange. |
Yellow Sea | n | An arm of the Pacific Ocean between Korea and the Eastern coast of China. |
Yellow star | n | Symbol the Nazis required Jewish people to wear during 1933 to 1945 |
Yellow streak | n | Cowardice; a personality trait combining cowardice, treachery and meanness. |
Yellows | n | Name of certain plants, such as Genista tinctora and Reseda inteola, yielding a yellow dye. 2. 'The Yellows': jaundice |
Yellowware | n | A type of yellowy earthenware or stoneware made from a yellow clay. |
Yellowy | adj | Somewhat yellow; yellowish. |
Yelm | n | A bundle of straw laid out for thatching. |
Yelm | vb | To bundle |
Yelp | n | A dog shrill bark of excitement or distress. 2.The cry of dogs and some other animals. 3. The lifting up of one's voice to cry aloud. 4. Boasting, vain-glorous speaking |
Yelper | n | A boaster, animal or person who whines or yelps; a whelp: avocet, a young partridge. 2. A Town Crier. 3. A writer or speaker whose utterance is like a yelper: whining, whingeing, complaining. Yelpers: wild beasts |
Yelpy | adj | Likely or prone to yelp. |
Yelt | n | A young sow, a gilt |
Yelve | n | Dung or garden fork |
Yeme | n | Care, heed, attention |
Yemeles | n | Carelessness, heedlessness, negligence |
Yemer | n | Custodian, carer, one who looks after something. |
Yender | n | (ere under)Forenoon, morning |
Yeo | n | A river, stream; a yea, ea. |
Yeoman | n | OE 'young (?) & man' servant, attendant in a royal or noble household. 2. groom, page, assistant as in yeoman of the ewery. 3. reliable, trustworthy assistant or helper |
Yeoman-like | adj | Sturdy, courageous, bold, staunch. |
Yeomanly | n | Pertaining to or resembling a yeoman. 2. of yeoman rank; brave, rugged, staunch |
Yeomanly | adv | Like a yeoman; bravely, staunchly. |
Yepe | adj | Cunning, crafty, sly, wily. 2. nimble, agile, brisk, bold, daring. Adv. yeply |
Yepsen | n | The two hands together, so as to form a bowl-shaped cavity |
Yerd | n | A stick; presumably from the same origin as yard, from Old English ġerd (“branch, twig, stick”) related to English and Scots yerk (“to whip, beat, strike, especially with a stick”). |
Yerd | vb | (rare) To beat with a stick |
Yerd-hunger | n | (eard or earth hunger) Voracious desire for land. "Lebensraum" |
Yere | vb | Yearn, desire, long for |
Yering | n | A desire, a longing, request |
Yern | adj | Eager, willing, earnest, desirous, greedily, thoroughly, covetous. 2. Swift, rapid, fast, brisk, lively, quick, nimble, agile. also spelt: 'yerne'. |
Yerner | n | A runner. |
Yerning | n | Running |
Yes | interj | Used in answering that something is so or that someone will do something or sign something that one is in agreement with a statement. |
Yes | phr | "Yes and Amen" - an emphatic agreement. |
Yes | phr | "Yes and No" - an answer that is partly true or untrue. 2. an answer that agrees but disagrees in another. |
Yes | phr | "Yes to Death" - to agree in something; somewhat sarcastically |
Yes-man | n | A weak acquiescent person; an obsequious subordinate. |
Yesmanship | n | The state or position of a yes-man. |
Yester | pref | A prefix meaning immediately preceding present, as in yesterday, yesternoon, yestereve. 2. the period of time: last past. (now only used in combination with 'day' . |
Yesterday | n | The day preceding today. 2. loosely, the near past. |
Yesterday | phr | "Not Born Yesterday" - be not naive. |
Yesterday | adv | On the day last past. 2. at a recent time. |
Yester-eve | n | Yesterday eve. |
Yester-evening | n | The evening of yesterday |
Yesterfang | n | That which was captured or caught on the previous day, as a previous day 's catch. |
Yestermonth | n | Last month |
Yestermorn | n | Yesterday morning. |
Yestern | n | Of or pertaining to yesterday. |
Yesternight | n | Last night. |
Yesternoon | n | Noon yesterday. |
Yestertide | n | A time period previous to the present; in the past; yestertime. |
Yestertime | n | A time period previous to the present; in the past; yestertide. |
Yestreen | n | Tne night before (yester & e'en). |
Yesterweek | n | Last week. |
Yesteryear | n | Last year. 2. the recent past. |
Yes way | intj | Indicates defiance of a previously said 'no way". |
Yet | adv | Till now or then, still; again, in addition; some time; before the chance is is gone; even, as in yet older; though that it is so. |
Yet | vb | To pour. 2. to shed tears or blood. 3. to pour forth or cause to flow in a flood. 4. to shed. 5. to infuse 6. to gush forth or flow in as stream, as water or tears. 7. to form an object by pouring molten metal into a mold; to found or cast metal. 8. to form metal into a shape, by pouring it when melted into a mold. 9. to melt down metal. 11. to set or fasten(as iron in stone) by means of molten lead, hence to fix firmly. See yote, yotling, yoter |
Yet | phr | "As Yet" - up to now. |
Yet | phr | "Nor Yet" - and also not. |
Yetting | n | Casting, founding. |
Yetling | n | Pot or boiler, usu. of cast iron. 2 various articles made of cast iron. 3.cast iron (itself), cast. |
Yeuck | n | Itch, a prickly feeling. |
Yeuck | vb | To irritate or itch the skin. |
Yetting | n | Casting, founding |
Yever | adj | Greedy, voracious, covetous. 2. eager, quick, prompt. |
Yeverly | adv | Greedily, yeversome. 2. quickly |
Yeverness | n | Greediness, gluttonly. 2.eagerness, impetuousity. Yevery. |
Yew | n | Yeugh, a tree of the genus taxus, esp. the common yew of Europe and Asia, Taxus baccata. Yews are placed in church-yards and cemeteries, and closely associated with mourning. Branches and twigs of the tree are thought of as symbols of mourning. |
Yewen | vb | Made of the wood of the yew tree. |
Yex | n | Yex or yesk: a hiccups, sob, belch |
Yex | vb | To hiccough or hiccup, belch forth. |
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