yack
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 4
/jæk/
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/jæk/ · /jak/
Definition of yack
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”).
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noun
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”).
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(England, dialectal, obsolete)An oak.
“If 't ash tree buds before 't yack, […]”
“Awd stiff yack nut eeasy bended, […]”
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(UK, obsolete)A watch (timepiece).
“I have got the Yacks, so do not come it. Fight cocum.”
“[…] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.”
verb
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(alt-of, alternative)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.”
“You rode the blimp here, didn't you? Boy, I envy you. I'm dying to ride that thing, but air travel makes me yack.”
““If we do a deal, no one ever hears about it. Others yack but Iwan never does. It is very Swiss.””
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Dialectal form.
Words you can make from yack
8 playable · top: CAKY (13 pts)
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4 words2-letter words
3 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 1 front · 1 back
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