yakka
See also: þakka
English
Alternative forms
- yakker
Etymology
From Yagara yaga (“work”).
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
yakka (uncountable)
- (Australia) Work.
- 1986, Quadrant, 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, 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, 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.
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Usage notes
Almost solely used in the term hard yakka.
Derived terms
- hard yakka
Verb
yakka
- (Australia) To work.
Anagrams
- kayak
Japanese
Romanization
yakka
- Rōmaji transcription of やっか
Oromo
Noun
yakka
- crime
Yagara
Noun
yakka
- Alternative form of yaga.
Verb
yakka
- Alternative form of yaga.
References
- “2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN.”, in State Library of Queensland, 13 May 2019, archived from the original on 2019-05-24, retrieved 9 March 2020