different between yakker vs yakka

English

Etymology 1

yak +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

yakker (plural yakkers)

1. (slang) One who yaks; a chatterbox or motormouth.
   • 1999, "Weird Al" Yankovic, "It's All About The Pentiums" (song):

     Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers? Wastin' time with all the chat room yakkers?

Etymology 2

Said to be from the flight path of the yawker bird.[1]

Noun

yakker (plural yakkers)

1. (baseball, slang) A curveball or slider.

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.