yelk
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
yelk (plural yelks)
- Obsolete form of yolk.
- 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 62:
- Eggs roasted hard, and the yelke taken out and salt putt in its stead.
Usage notes[edit]
- Some 19th-century authorities regarded this as the correct spelling.
- 1828, Noah Webster, “yelk”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language:
- It is sometimes written and pronounced yolk, but yelk is the proper word. Yolk is a corruption.