"yacker" meaning in English

See yacker in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: yackers [plural]
Etymology: yack + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|yack|er|id2=agent noun}} yack + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} yacker (plural yackers)
  1. (informal) One who talks at length. Tags: informal Derived forms: pit-yacker
    Sense id: en-yacker-en-noun-aGkQSMfz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for yacker meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "yack",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
      "expansion": "yack + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "yack + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yackers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "yacker (plural yackers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "pit-yacker"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, Electronics world: Volume 65",
          "text": "Watch Those Lengthy Conversations: Stick to the 5-minute rule. How many times have you heard yackers say, \"Well, I guess we've used up our five\" when they've been talking for an hour.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who talks at length."
      ],
      "id": "en-yacker-en-noun-aGkQSMfz",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) One who talks at length."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yacker"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "pit-yacker"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "yack",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
      "expansion": "yack + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "yack + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yackers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "yacker (plural yackers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, Electronics world: Volume 65",
          "text": "Watch Those Lengthy Conversations: Stick to the 5-minute rule. How many times have you heard yackers say, \"Well, I guess we've used up our five\" when they've been talking for an hour.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who talks at length."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) One who talks at length."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yacker"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.