different between yak vs yuck

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

yak (plural yak or yaks)

1. An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Burma, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.
   • 2008, Scott R. R. Haskell, Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Ruminant, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 619

     Utilization efficiency of dietary protein in the yak differs with diet composition and feeding level, age, sex, body condition score, and animal production level (e.g., growth, lactation). Researchers reported no difference between lactating and dry cows in crude protein digestibility, although lactating yak tend to consume more feed than dry yak.

   • 2004, Wilson G. Pond, Encyclopedia of Animal Science (Print), CRC Press (?ISBN), page 899

     Attempts are now being made, by selection, to create a new breed of yak (the Datong yak) from such crosses. Hybridization of domestic yak with local cattle, at intermediate elevations, has been practiced for generations. The hybrids inherit some of the good characteristics from each species, but lack the adaptation of the yak to the harsh conditions at higher elevations.

Hyponyms

• Bos mutus
• Bos grunniens
• Bos mutus grunniens, wild yak
• Poephagus grunniens, domestic yak

Derived terms

• domestic yak
• wild yak
• yak lace
• yakless
• yaklike
• yak shaving
• yakskin

Translations

Etymology 2

Apparently an onomatopoeia.

Alternative forms

• yack

Verb

yak (third-person singular simple present yaks, present participle yakking, simple past and past participle yakked)

1. (slang, intransitive) To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI

     “You'll like Poppet. Nice dog. Wears his ears inside out. Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?” “I could not say, sir.” “Nor me. I've often wondered. But this won't do, Jeeves. Here we are, yakking about Jezebels and dachshunds, when we ought to be concentrating our minds […]

2. (slang, intransitive) To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.

Translations

Noun

yak (countable and uncountable, plural yaks)

1. (slang) A talk, particular an informal talk; chattering; gossip.
   • 1983, Nicolas Freeling, The Back of the North Wind (?ISBN)

     The sudden head-down butt jabbed into someone’s face, is a highly effective way of putting a stop to his yack.

2. (slang) A laugh.
   • 1951, Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds, Cartoonist

     Would-be gags from would-be gagsters. And, nine chances out of ten, not a yak in the lot.

3. (slang) Vomit.

Translations

Related terms

• yackety-yak
• yakfest
• yakky

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Noun

yak (plural yaks)

1. (slang) A kayak.

Anagrams

• 'kay, Kay, kay, kya

Choctaw

Adverb

yak

1. thus

References

• Cyrus Byington, A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?k/
• Hyphenation: yak
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

yak m (plural yakken or yaks, diminutive yakje n)

1. Alternative spelling of jak

French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -jak

Noun

yak m (plural yaks)

1. Alternative spelling of yack

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

yak m (invariable)

1. A yak (bovine)

   Synonym: bue tibetano

Kokborok

Alternative forms

• jak

Etymology

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *yak (“hand; arm”). Cognate with Garo jak (“hand”).

Noun

yak

1. hand

References

• Debbarma, Binoy (2001) , “yak”, in Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary, Language Wing, Education Department, TTAADC, ?ISBN, page 142

Manx

Etymology

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

Noun

yak m (genitive singular yak, plural yakkyn)

1. yak

Savi

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?? (eka).

Numeral

yak

1. (cardinal) one

References

• Nina Knobloch (2020) A grammar sketch of Sauji: An Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan?^[1], Stockholm University

Spanish

Alternative forms

• yac

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

yak m (plural yak or yaks)

1. yak (bovine)

Tagalog

Etymology

From English yuck.

Interjection

yak

1. An expression to indicate disgust.
2. yuck!

Synonyms

• kadiri

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

yak (definite accusative yak?, plural yaklar)

1. yak (ox-like mammal)

Synonyms

• Tibet öküzü
• Tibet s???r?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?k/
• Homophone: yuk
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jak (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s.

Interjection

yuck

1. Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour. [from 1966]

   Antonym: yum

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:yuck

Derived terms

• yucky

Translations

Noun

yuck (plural yucks)

1. (uncountable) Something disgusting.
   • 2003, The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003

     I fetched an orange from a basket and peeled it […] “Make sure you peel as much of the yuck off as possible,” she said. “I hate the yuck."

2. (countable) The sound made by a laugh.
   • 2000, The New Yorker, 13 March 2000

     Given this insecurity, the creators of “The Simpsons” took an extraordinary risk: they decided not to use a laugh track. On almost all other sitcoms, dialogue was interrupted repeatedly by crescendos of phony guffaws (or by the electronically enhanced laughter of live audiences), creating the unreal ebb and flow of sitcom conversation, in which a typical character’s initial reaction to an ostensibly humorous remark could only be to smile archly or look around while waiting for the yucks to die down.

See also

• yuk

Etymology 2

Compare German jucken, Dutch jeuken, and see itch.

Verb

yuck (third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)

1. (obsolete) To itch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)

Scots

Etymology

Presumably of the same roots as English chuck, itself from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from Gaulish *?okka (compare Breton soc'h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”).

Verb

yuck (third-person singular present yuck, present participle yuckin, past yuckit, past participle yuckit)

1. to chuck, to throw

Noun

yuck (plural yucks)

1. a throw
2. a small stone that can be thrown