"yack" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /jæk/ Audio: En-au-yack.ogg [Australia] Forms: yacks [plural]
Rhymes: -æk Head templates: {{en-noun}} yack (plural yacks)
  1. Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: yak (extra: chatter; talk) Categories (topical): Talking
    Sense id: en-yack-en-noun-E5xEZ0RE Disambiguation of Talking: 46 11 10 33 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /jak/ Forms: yacks [plural]
Etymology: Dialectal form. Head templates: {{en-noun}} yack (plural yacks)
  1. (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete) An oak. Tags: England, dialectal, obsolete, possibly
    Sense id: en-yack-en-noun-SUZQHMeF Categories (other): English English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 53 14 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Forms: yacks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} yack (plural yacks)
  1. (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A watch (timepiece). Tags: UK, obsolete
    Sense id: en-yack-en-noun-uhMJqAbB Categories (other): British English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /jæk/ Audio: En-au-yack.ogg [Australia] Forms: yacks [present, singular, third-person], yacking [participle, present], yacked [participle, past], yacked [past]
Rhymes: -æk Head templates: {{en-verb}} yack (third-person singular simple present yacks, present participle yacking, simple past and past participle yacked)
  1. Alternative form of yak (“talk; vomit”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: yak (extra: talk; vomit) Derived forms: yack on
    Sense id: en-yack-en-verb-sTrhknm9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for yack meaning in English (4.7kB)

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