Also 6 yelky, 9 yoky. [f. YOLK sb.1 + -Y1.] Resembling or consisting of (egg) yolk; of or pertaining to yolk; full of or abounding in yolk.
1528. [see YOLKINESS].
1533. Elyot, Cast. Helthe (1541), 9. Yelky choler, like to the yelkes of egges.
1576. Newton, Lemnie’s Complex., 147. The seconde [melancholy] … is compact and made of yealowe or yolkie Choler aduste.
1841. J. T. Hewlett, Parish Clerk, I. 80. Vield’s eggs was more yokier than their’s was.
1889. Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci., May, 11. Small round, highly refractive yolky particles were present in the egg protoplasm.
b. in reference to stone or other mineral: cf. YOLK sb.1 4 b. Yolky-stone, a local name for a kind of conglomerate.
1805. Mushet, in Phil. Trans., XCV. 167. The fracture [of the bars] was gray, tore out a little in breaking, but was otherwise yolky and excessively dense.
1813. Headrick, Agric. Angus, 34. Beds of coarse pudding-stone, or gravel, or yolky-stone, as it is here called.
