yack
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
yack (plural yacks)
- Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”)
VerbEdit
yack (third-person singular simple present yacks, present participle yacking, simple past and past participle yacked)
- 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.
Etymology 2Edit
Dialectal form.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
yack (plural yacks)
- (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, 25:
- Awd stiff yack nut eeasy bended, […]
- 1877, Gibson, Leg. and Notes 50:
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
yack m (plural yacks)
- yak (ox-like mammal)
Further readingEdit
- “yack” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).