yeller
English
Etymology 2
Eye dialect.
Alternative forms
Adjective
yeller (comparative more yeller, superlative most yeller)
- Eye dialect spelling of yellow.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 10, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
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