yack
Multiple Entries:yack yak
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
yack
▶noun & verb variant spelling of yak2.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
yak1
▶noun a large ox with shaggy hair, humped shoulders, and large horns, used in Tibet as a pack animal and for its milk, meat, and hide. [Bos grunniens (domesticated) and B. mutus (its wild ancestor).]
– origin C18: from Tibetan gyag.
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yak2 (also yack) informal
▶noun a trivial or unduly persistent conversation. ▶verb (yaks, yakking, yakked) talk at length about trivial or boring subjects.
– origin 1950s: imitative.
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