yackety-yak
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Etymology edit
Resembles yak (“to chatter”) and yacket; all are ultimately imitative or onomatopoeic in origin.
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Noun edit
yackety-yak (countable and uncountable, plural yackety-yaks)
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- gossip
- See also Thesaurus:chatter
Verb edit
yackety-yak (third-person singular simple present yackety-yaks, present participle yackety-yakking, simple past and past participle yackety-yakked)
- (intransitive, slang) To talk pointlessly and uninterruptedly.