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12 letters · 25 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail
noun European bunting the male being bright yellow
originAn alteration (influenced by hammer) of the earlier yelambre, yelamber, from Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from Old English amore, related to Old High German amaro (“yellowhammer”) (see modern German Ammer).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- whammy 19
- wholemeal 17
- haymow 17
- mayhem 16
- whammo 16
- mealworm 15
- whally 15
- wheely 15
- wholly 15
- hammy 15
- hallower 14
- yellower 14