yakka

See also: þakka

English

Alternative forms

• yakker

Etymology

From Yagara yaga (“work”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

yakka (uncountable)

1. (Australia) Work.
   • 1986, Quadrant‎^[1], Volume 30, page 42:

     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.

   • 1991 July 3, Michael Barlow, “PURDITORY: Harridans [Harsoc]”, in aus.games.roleplay‎^[2] (Usenet):

     The slaves who do all the yakka could be another species, small and easily bullied. Failing that, enslaved humans will do.

   • 2002 October 22, MPD, “Drivetrain component upgrade”, in aus.bicycle‎^[3] (Usenet):

     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.

Usage notes

Almost solely used in the term hard yakka.

Derived terms

• hard yakka

Verb

yakka

1. (Australia) To work.

Anagrams

• kayak

Japanese

Romanization

yakka

1. Rōmaji transcription of やっか

Oromo

Noun

yakka

1. crime

Yagara

Noun

yakka

1. Alternative form of yaga.

Verb

yakka

1. Alternative form of yaga.

References

• “2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN.”, in State Library of Queensland‎^[4], 2019 May 13, archived from the original on 24 May 2019