yack

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

yack (plural yacks)

  1. Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”)

Verb

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

Etymology 2

Dialectal form.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Noun

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
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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French

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Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

yack m (plural yacks)

  1. yak (ox-like mammal)

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