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Woodpecker and two mythological figures flying round
Answer for the clue "Woodpecker and two mythological figures flying round ", 6 letters:
yaffle
Word definitions for yaffle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. Greener (gr[=e]n"[~e]r); superl. Greenest. ] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr["u]n, Dan. & Sw. gr["o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow. ] Having the color ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context UK dialectal English) The European green woodpecker, ''Picus viridis''.
Usage examples of yaffle.
She spent the day sewing industriously, working the red cap of a yaffle, which was pecking the trunk of the bush, with only a subdued and nervous Tigrus for company.
II Here the snake across your path Stretches in his golden bath: Mossy-footed squirrels leap Soft as winnowing plumes of Sleep: Yaffles on a chuckle skim Low to laugh from branches dim: Up the pine, where sits the star, Rattles deep the moth-winged jar.
I could feel a terrible tension building in her, rising, and then it broke at last, in a great yawning loosened yaffling animal sob.
II Here the snake across your path Stretches in his golden bath: Mossy-footed squirrels leap Soft as winnowing plumes of Sleep: Yaffles on a chuckle skim Low to laugh from branches dim: Up the pine, where sits the star, Rattles deep the moth-winged jar.