different between yack vs fack

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæk/
• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophone: yak

Noun

yack (plural yacks)

1. Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”)

Verb

yack (third-person singular simple present yacks, present participle yacking, simple past and past participle yacked)

1. 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.

Etymology 2

Dialectal form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jak/

Noun

yack (plural yacks)

1. (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete) An oak.
   • 1877, Gibson, Leg. and Notes 50:

     If 't ash tree buds before 't yack, […]

   • 1878, John Castillo, Poems in the North Yorkshire Dialect, 25:

     Awd stiff yack nut eeasy bended, […]

Anagrams

• YKCA, caky, cyka

French

Alternative forms

• yak

Etymology

From Tibetan ??? (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-ja?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jak/

Noun

yack m (plural yacks)

1. yak (ox-like mammal)

Further reading

• “yack” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From Middle English *fak, fec, fæc (“space, compartment”), from Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; period of five years, lustrum”), from Proto-Germanic *fak? (“division, department, space”), from Proto-Indo-European *pÀ?- (“to fasten, fix”). Cognate with West Frisian fek, Dutch vak (“section, compartment”), German Fach (“compartment”), Swedish fack (“compartment, box, department”), Latin pang? (“fasten, fix”).

Alternative forms

• fec (obsolete)

Noun

fack (plural facks)

1. (Britain dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.

Etymology 2

Verb

fack (third-person singular simple present facks, present participle facking, simple past and past participle facked)

1. (Britain, pronunciation spelling, Cockney) fuck

Swedish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

fack n

1. a compartment, a box, a slot (one of several)
2. a trade, a profession, a subject of expertise (seen as a compartment of the larger work life)
3. (informal) a trade union; clipping of fackförening.

Declension

Related terms

• (compartment): bankfack, frysfack, handskfack, postfack
• (trade): fackansluten, fackidiot, facklitteratur, fackombud, fackspråk, fackförbund, fackförening, facklig

See also

• placera någon i ett fack