yack

plural yacks

1. alternativeAlternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”).

present singular third person yacks · participle present yacking · participle past yacked · past yacked

1. alternativeAlternative 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.

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   You rode the blimp here, didn't you? Boy, I envy you. I'm dying to ride that thing, but air travel makes me yack.

   2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville

   “If we do a deal, no one ever hears about it. Others yack but Iwan never does. It is very Swiss.”

   2024 March 2, John Gapper, “Planet Wirth”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2

plural yacks

1. EnglanddialectalobsoleteAn oak.

   Awd stiff yack nut eeasy bended, […]

   1878, John Castillo, Poems in the North Yorkshire Dialect, section 25

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   If 't ash tree buds before 't yack, […]

   1877, Gibson, Leg. and Notes 50

plural yacks

1. UKobsoletethieves slangA watch (timepiece).

   I have got the Yacks, so do not come it. Fight cocum.

   1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 498

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   […] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.

   1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London, volume 3, page 86