yack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jæk/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -æk
- Homophone: yak
Noun
yack (plural yacks)
- Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”)
Verb
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 2
Dialectal form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jak/
Noun
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:
Noun
yack (plural yacks)
- (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A watch (timepiece).
- 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant (page 498)
- I have got the Yacks, so do not come it. Fight cocum.
- 1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London (volume 3, page 86)
- […] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.
- 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant (page 498)
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
- YKCA, caky, cyka
French
Alternative forms
- yak
Etymology
Borrowed from Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jak/
Audio (file)
Noun
yack m (plural yacks)
- yak (ox-like mammal)
Further reading
- “yack”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.