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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.
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