different between yack vs mack

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

• IPA^(key): /mæk/

Etymology 1

Clipping of mackerel (“pimp”)

Noun

mack (plural macks)

1. (slang) An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills.

   She left with him; he must be a true mack.

Derived terms

• mack daddy

Verb

mack (third-person singular simple present macks, present participle macking, simple past and past participle macked)

1. (slang) To act as pimp; to pander.

   Synonyms: hustle, whore out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out

2. (slang) To seduce or flirt with.

   Synonyms: entice, pick up

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of mackintosh

Noun

mack (plural macks)

1. (Britain) A raincoat or mackintosh.

Translations

Etymology 3

Blend of mast +? stack

Noun

mack (plural macks)

1. An element of a ship's superstructure which places the function of a ship's mast on its exhaust stack, adding the skeletal supporting structure to the smokestack to support the mast's complement of functions.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

mak +? -k

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat?sk/

Noun

mack m

1. Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale)

Declension

Further reading

• mack in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• mack in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Swedish

Etymology

Since 1920 from the trademark MACK, the abbreviation for "Mathiasson, Andersson, Collin, Key", the owners of one of the first companies that opened gas stations in Sweden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Noun

mack c

1. (somewhat colloquial) gas station

   Synonyms: bensinmack, bensinstation

Declension

References