Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A dialectal variant of yellow.

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Examples

  • Take a quart of cream, & when it boyles take 14 eggs; If they be very yallow take out 2 or 3 of the youlks; put them into [the] cream when it boyles & keep it with continuall stirring till it be thick like curd.

    chess pie | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

  • Heer, taek dis sof yallow blankee wif teh paw printz onnit nd rap it arownd u.

    muffin top - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • As for wiskars, this young mann had none beyond a little yallow tought to his chin, which you woodn notas, only he was always pulling at it.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • As for wiskars, this young mann had none beyond a little yallow tought to his chin, which you woodn notas, only he was always pulling at it.

    Burlesques 2006

  • Chrishmarsh at Brampleton-hall — As our apartments is to be the yallow pepper, in the thurd story, pray carry my things thither. —

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • His face an 'neck were as yellow's mairyguilds, an' yallower; an 'though I've taen washin' soda, an 'pooder, an' the very scrubbin 'brush till't, Sandy's gaen aboot yet juist like's he was noo oot o' the yallow fivver an 'the jaundice thegither.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Weel, I gaed awa 'to the kirk lest Sabbath -- Sandy, of coorse, cudna get oot wi' his yallow face an 'neck.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • My pappy name George, black George they call him in slavery time, 'cause dere was a small yallow slave on de place, named George.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

  • An 'gled I was when I saw Sandy's yallow nose again, I can tell ye, for I was shure syne I wud dee at hame amon' my nain bed-claes.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • She kent aboot Sandy's fairntickles afore, of coorse, an 'Sandy's yallow fizog didna pet her aboot.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

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