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- adjective US
Eye dialect spelling ofyellow .
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Examples
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Albeit he had assumed his pleasantest manner when, after his return to the living-room, the little "yaller" man came through the door with his bundle of wood.
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My husband left me and went up to Evansville with a "yaller" woman, and after six years sent for me to come and get him.
Father Gave Her to His White People After The War: Oral History Of Her Days As A Slave 1938
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He was going with a "yaller" woman, and I whipped all the clothes off her once.
Father Gave Her to His White People After The War: Oral History Of Her Days As A Slave 1938
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Bulldogs, "yaller" dogs, mangy wolf-hounds, and setters – those aristocrats of our canine kingdom – helped to make things lively.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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He once told me that he thought his fame for one generation, at least, was secure, inasmuch as one-half of the freckled-faced boys and two-thirds of the "yaller" dogs in North Carolina had been named in his honor.
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Seeing that he could not open anything by turning the key round in this key-hole, since there was no door here, he thought he would now try what luck he might have with the "yaller" key in opening the door.
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls Edward Eggleston 1869
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'yaller' and green dining-room, but it takes in the 'chany' as well.
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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I will have to do a Sister Souljah on his high-yaller ass.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Why Obama’s Church Matters 2008
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I will have to do a Sister Souljah on his high-yaller ass.
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I will have to do a Sister Souljah on his high-yaller ass.
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