YACK

yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle

(noun) noisy talk

yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away

(verb) talk incessantly and tiresomely

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

yack (plural yacks)

Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”)

Verb

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

Alternative form of yak (“talk; vomit”)

Etymology 2

Dialectal form.

Noun

yack (plural yacks)

(England, dialectal, possibly, obsolete) An oak.

Anagrams

• YKCA, caky, cyka

Source: Wiktionary



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