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Yaller vs Faller - What's the difference?

yaller | faller |

As an adjective yaller

is eye dialect of lang=en.

As a noun faller is

one who falls.

yaller

English

Alternative forms

* yeller

Adjective

  • (US)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="Forgot the yaller cuss!" replied he. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909, author=Louise Forsslund, title=Old Lady Number 31, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=See my yaller silk handkerchief, tew? }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1924, author=, title=Bull Hunter, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=He met me single and he fought me clean, and he's going to be pulled down by no pack of yaller dogs! }}

    Anagrams

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    faller

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who falls.
  • An apple that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
  • (engineering) A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
  • Derived terms

    * backfaller * counter-faller * off-faller

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