Y

# The Letter Y

## To YAM

to eat heartily, to stuff lustily.

## YARMOUTH-Capon

a red Herring.

## YARMOUTH-Coach

a sorry slow Cart to ride on, drawn by one Horse.

## YARMOUTH-Pye

made of Herrings, highly spic'd, and presented by the City of Norwich annually to the King, on pain of forfeiting their Charter.

## YARUM

Milk, or Food made of Milk.

## YEA-and-Nay-Men

a Phrase originally applied to Quakers; but now used for any simple Fellows.

## YELLOW

at first used by the Canters only, but now in common Speech, for being jealous.

## YELLOW-Boy

a Guinea, or Piece of Gold of any Coin.

## To YELP

(from the Yelping of a Dog) to cry, to bawl, to complain.

## YELPER

a Town-Cryer; also, one subject to complain, or make pitiful Lamentation for trifling Incidents.

## YEST

a Diminutive of Yesterday; a Day ago.

## YOAK'D

married.

## YORKSHIRE-Tike

a Yorkshire Manner of Man.