Etymology

hard yakka

Today it means: Hard work. Full definition →

Yagara yaga
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Yagara · borrowed fromyaga“work”
  2. English todayhard yakka

From hard + yakka, from Yagara yaga (“work”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.