The Anglish Moot
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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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