See Also: Yorkshire(dictionary)
Yorkshire(dictionary)
Yorkshire(encyclopedia)
Yorkshire Dales(tourism)
West Yorkshire(tourism)
South Yorkshire(tourism)
Yorkshire Pudding(recipes)
North Yorkshire(tourism)
Yorkshire puddings(recipes)
Yorkshire parkin(recipes)

Yorkshire (iou)



Yorkshire noun. E17.
[A former county in N. England, now divided into the three counties of North, South, and West Yorkshire.]
I.
Used attrib. to designate things found or originating in, or associated with, Yorkshire. E17.
Yorkshire chair a type of 17th-cent. upright chair, usu. distinguished by an open backrest and arched cross-rails. Yorkshire fog a softly hairy pasture grass, Holcus lanatus, with greyish often pink-tinged panicles (also called meadow soft-grass). Yorkshireman a man who is a native of Yorkshire. Yorkshire pud colloq. (a) Yorkshire pudding. Yorkshire pudding (a) baked batter pudding, orig. baked under meat, now usu. cooked separately and eaten with roast beef. Yorkshire teacake a kind of baked yeast teacake. Yorkshire terrier (an animal of) a small, long-coated, tan and blue-grey breed of terrier developed in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Yorkshire tyke: see TYKE 3. Yorkshirewoman a woman who is a native of Yorkshire.
II. ellipt.
Yorkshire dialect. E18.
(A) Yorkshire pudding. L19.
A Yorkshire terrier. E20.
Yorkshireism noun an action or expression characteristic of a native of Yorkshire M17.