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English slang from the Westcountry where it means to eat noisily, greedily and rapidly without paying any attention to table manners, the quality of the food or the effect on other diners. The process is usually interspersed with grunts, belches and slobbering and would put a starving hyena to shame.
"Did you see Malcolm yaffle those cream cakes? I thought I'd puke!"
Yaffle by AKACroatalin April 13, 2015
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Uncommon English name for the European Green Woodpecker, immatative of it's laugh-like call (technically urban, you get them in green areas of town)
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Yaffle by Bell July 26, 2003
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A Newfoundland term used to describe an armload of sticks or fish.

It is now used interchangeably to describe an accumulation of anything.
"She was carrying a yaffle of books to school today"

"The university has a yaffle of research projects underway"
yaffle by Bumbletoot February 22, 2009
Yaffle: Spaeaking loudly to foreigners as if it somehow makes you easier to understand.
A foreign person come up to you pointing at a map and saying the name of the place in a foreign accent and you start shouting directions at them. Yaffle
Yaffle by jphw March 24, 2009
to give oral sex to a male (a good cock suck)
to yaffle the yougart cannon
v. yaffling, yaffled; to waffle in an officious, patronising and anally-retentive way. After the Bagpuss character Professor Yaffle
The boss was yaffling on about the mugs not being on saucers again! Yaffle, yaffle, yaffle! I'm sick of it!
yaffle by DanEvans April 6, 2010

yaffle daffle 

A word of exclamation to be employed when one is socially obliged to say something but isn't sure if he or she should respond positively, negatively or neutrally. When one wants to show something is notable but lacks infomation on what attitude to form about it.
Husband: How was your day, honey?
Wife: It was pretty average.
Husband: Yaffle daffle.
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city chicken 

A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.

I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.
Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?
city chicken by TRF August 31, 2006
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