Definitions for yellowhammer

yellowhammer yel·low·ham·mer

Spelling: [yel-oh-ham-er]
IPA: /ˈyɛl oʊˌhæm ər/

Yellowhammer is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 27 points.

You can make 600 anagrams from letters in yellowhammer (aeehllmmorwy).

Definitions for yellowhammer

noun

  1. a common European bunting, Emberiza citrinella, the male of which is marked with bright yellow.
  2. Chiefly Southern U.S. a flicker, Colaptes auratus, having yellow wing and tail linings.

Origin of yellowhammer

1550-60; earlier also yelamber, yelambre, probably continuing Old English *geolu-amore, equivalent to geolu yellow + amore presumably, the bunting (cognate with Old

Examples for yellowhammer

The yellowhammer is almost the longest of all the singers; he sits and sits and has no inclination to move.

Another whack across his nether end, and a yell from yellowhammer.

The unblessed condition of yellowhammer had been truly described.

yellowhammer was a new mining town constructed mainly of canvas and undressed pine.

All our other Woodpeckers stay with us—except the yellowhammer.

The yellowhammer is the most persistent individually, but I think the blackbirds when listened to are the masters of the fields.

They are about the size of the yellowhammer, six inches and a half in length, of which the tail measures two.

Never afterward did he turn up enough dust in yellowhammer to pay his bar bill.

I fear the yellowhammer will not long remain in such a pandemonium.

A yellowhammer has just flown from a bare branch in the gateway, where he has been perched and singing a full hour.

Word Value for yellowhammer
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Words with friends

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