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Yeller vs Weller - What's the difference?

yeller | weller |

As a noun yeller

is someone who yells.

As an adjective yeller

is .

As a proper noun weller is

.

yeller

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who yells.

    • Etymology 2

    Eye dialect.

    Alternative forms

    * yaller

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=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.}}

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns

    weller

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (well)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1822, author=Charles and Mary Lamb, title=The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Emma is looking weller and handsomer (as you say) than ever. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Henry Sydnor Harrison, title=V. V.'s Eyes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He forgot the Huns; forgot John the Baptist; forgot even his sick, till one of the weller of them (as we may assume) knocked memorially upon his door.... }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Samuel Hopkins Adams, title=From a Bench in Our Square, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Now we come home he is already weller . }}