yack

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English

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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yack (plural yacks)

  1. Alternative form of yak (chatter; talk)

Verb

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yack (third-person singular simple present yacks, present participle yacking, simple past and past participle yacked)

  1. Alternative form of yak (talk; vomit)
    I moved to another carriage on the train because the first one was full of people yacking on mobile phones.
    • 2024 March 2, John Gapper, “Planet Wirth”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2:
      “If we do a deal, no one ever hears about it. Others yack but Iwan never does. It is very Swiss.”

Derived terms

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Etymology 2

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Dialectal form.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yack (plural yacks)

  1. (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete) An oak.
    • 1877, Gibson, Leg. and Notes 50:
      If 't ash tree buds before 't yack, []
    • 1878, John Castillo, Poems in the North Yorkshire Dialect, section 25:
      Awd stiff yack nut eeasy bended, []

Etymology 3

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Noun

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yack (plural yacks)

  1. (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A watch (timepiece).
    • 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 498:
      I have got the Yacks, so do not come it. Fight cocum.
    • 1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London, volume 3, page 86:
      [] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber [] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.
References
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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yack m (plural yacks)

  1. yak (ox-like mammal)

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