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yack en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /jæk/
• (Australia) audio

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”).
   alt of yak

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yack en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /jæk/
• (Australia) audio

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of yak (“talk; vomit”).
   alt of yak
   • “If we do a deal, no one ever hears about it. Others yack but Iwan never does. It is very Swiss.” 2024 March 2, John Gapper, “Planet Wirth”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
   • I moved to another carriage on the train because the first one was full of people yacking on mobile phones.
   • You rode the blimp here, didn't you? Boy, I envy you. I'm dying to ride that thing, but air travel makes me yack. 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:

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yack on

yack en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /jak/

Etymology

Dialectal form.

Meanings

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

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yack en · NOUN · etymology 3

Meanings

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

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