yaller

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yaller (comparative yallerer, superlative yallerest)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of yellow, representing Southern US English.
    • 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861‎:
      "Forgot the yaller cuss!" replied he.
    • 1892, George Huntington, Nakoma: A Story of Frontier Life, page 172:
      And it's lucky for the rest that they can't git it. I see three spears o ' yaller corn once tryin' to occoopy an acre lot. But they could n't seem to make no good use on't, an' growed yallerer an' yallerer, an' spindlin'er an' spindlin'er, till they didn't know themselves from pigeon grass.
    • 1906, Wayside Tales, page 41:
      And here's a orange, the biggest and yallerest I could pick out. And ther's sugar, and lemons, and fresh beef.
    • 1909, Louise Forsslund, Old Lady Number 31‎:
      See my yaller silk handkerchief, tew?
    • 1924, Max Brand, Bull Hunter‎:
      He met me single and he fought me clean, and he's going to be pulled down by no pack of yaller dogs!

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