yellowhammer Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail
Colaptes auratus; yellow-shafted flicker.
noun European bunting the male being bright yellow
Emberiza citrinella; yellow bunting.

For yellow-ammer, where ammer is fr. AS. amore a kind of bird; akin to G. ammer a yellow-hammer, OHG. amero.

(Zoöl.) (a) A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark. Written also yellow-ammer. (b) The flicker. Local, U. S.