YAFFLING. Eating. CANT. YANKEY. or YANKEY DOODLE. A booby, or country lout: a name given to the New England men in North America. A general appellation for an American. YARMOUTH CAPON. A red herring: Yarmouth is a famous place for curing herrings. YARMOUTH COACH. A kind of low two-wheeled cart drawn by one horse, not much unlike an Irish car. YARMOUTH PYE. A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annually to the king. YARUM. Milk. CANT. YEA AND NAY MAN. A quaker, a simple fellow, one who can only answer yes, or no. YELLOW. To look yellow; to be jealous. I happened to call on Mr. Green, who was out: on coming home, and finding me with his wife, he began to look confounded blue, and was, I thought, a little yellow. YELLOW BELLY. A native of the Fens of Lincolnshire; an allusion to the eels caught there. YELLOW BOYS. Guineas.
Based on the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence by Francis Grose published originally in 1811
