Yaller vs Faller - What's the difference?
yaller | faller |
(US)
* {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Forgot the yaller cuss!" replied he. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1909, author=Louise Forsslund, title=Old Lady Number 31, chapter=, edition=
, passage=See my yaller silk handkerchief, tew? }}
* {{quote-book, year=1924, author=, title=Bull Hunter, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He met me single and he fought me clean, and he's going to be pulled down by no pack of yaller dogs! }}
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.
As an adjective yaller
is eye dialect of lang=en.As a noun faller is
one who falls.yaller
English
Alternative forms
* yellerAdjective
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