• Yelk

    Full definition of yelk

    Noun

    yelk

    (plural yelks)
    1. Obsolete spelling of yolk

    Usage notes

    Some 19th-century authorities regarded this as the correct spelling.

    1828, Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language, "yelk":

    It is sometimes written and pronounced yolk, but yelk is the proper word. Yolk is a corruption.

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