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.
by AKACroatalin April 13, 2015
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)
Yaffle
by Bell July 27, 2003
A Newfoundland term used to describe an armload of sticks or fish.
It is now used interchangeably to describe an accumulation of anything.
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"
"The university has a yaffle of research projects underway"
by Bumbletoot February 23, 2009
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
by jphw March 24, 2009
by the girl who wanted to be GOD May 05, 2003
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!
by DanEvans April 06, 2010
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.
by Honourmemberofyd May 11, 2009