Sc. and dial. Forms: 6 ȝawmer, ȝamer, 8 yaumour, yaummer, 8– yammer. [f. next. Cf. MDu., MLG. jammer.] An act, or the action, of ‘yammering’; a cry of lamentation, a wail; a loud outcry, shout, yell; lamentation, complaint, querulous utterance.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xxxiii. 122. The air was dirkit with the fowlis, That come with ȝawmeris and with ȝowlis.
1552. Lyndesay, Monarche, 6002. Than sall those Creaturis forlorne Warie the hour that thay wer borne, With mony ȝamer, ȝewt, and ȝell.
1792. A. Wilson, Watty & Meg, xxxix. While the weans, wi’ mornfu’ yaummer, Round their sabbin mother flew.
1894. Crockett, Lilac Sunbonnet, ix. Gin ye dinna tak’ tent to yersel’ … wi’ yer eternal yammer o’ ‘Peats, Jock Gordon,’ an’ ‘Water, Jock Gordon,’ ye’ll maybes find yersel’ whaur Jock Gordon ’ll no be there to serve ye.
