different between yakka vs yacca

English

Alternative forms

• yakker

Etymology

From Yagara yaga (“work”).

Pronunciation

Noun

yakka (uncountable)

1. (Australia) Work.
   • 1986, Quadrant, Volume 30, page 42,

     The demand for work and abortion shows that feminists have been coopted by the wimps, whose ideal is the single mother yoked to tough yakka; for it frees them to drift between bedrooms and bathhouses.

Usage notes

Almost solely used in the term hard yakka.

Derived terms

• hard yakka

Verb

yakka

1. (Australia) To work.

Anagrams

• kayak

Oromo

Noun

yakka

1. crime

Yagara

Noun

yakka

1. Alternative form of yaga.

Verb

yakka

1. Alternative form of yaga.

References

• State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish yaca, from Taíno.

Noun

yacca (plural yaccas)

1. Either of two large evergreens of the West Indies, Podocarpus coriaceus and Podocarpus purdicanus.

Further reading

• Podocarpus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From a native Australian name.

Alternative forms

• yacka, yakka

Noun

yacca (plural yaccas)

1. Any of the various Australian perennial flowering plants of the genus Xanthorrhoea

Synonyms

• grasstree, grass tree
• blackboy

Further reading

• Xanthorrhoea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Xanthorrhoea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies