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yakka en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From Yagara yaga (“work”).

Meanings

1. (Australia, uncountable) Work.
   • I have seen way too many cheap cranksets go to the pack after a small amount of x-country and minor technical yakka off-road. 2002 October 22, MPD, “Drivetrain component upgrade”, in aus.bicycle (Usenet):
   • The slaves who do all the yakka could be another species, small and easily bullied. Failing that, enslaved humans will do. 1991 July 3, Michael Barlow, “PURDITORY: Harridans [Harsoc]”, in aus.games.roleplay (Usenet):
   • The demand for work and abortion shows that feminists have been coopted by the wimps, whose ideal is the single mother yoked to tough yakka; for it frees them to drift between bedrooms and bathhouses. 1986, Quadrant, Volume 30, page 42:

Forms

Deriveds

hard yakka

yakka en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From Yagara yaga (“work”).

Meanings

1. (Australia) To work.

Forms

yakka en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Punjabi ਯੱਕਾ (yakkā), usually referring to an ace (a type of playing card) or a horse-drawn cart, but can also be translated into the English expletive fuck. However, the slang usage of the term is said to be a corruption of Yankee.

Meanings

1. (India, North, South-Asia, derogatory, slang, sometimes) a Sikh living in the Sikh diaspora, especially one from the West

Forms

Antonyms

dipper