different between yakky vs yakka

English

Etymology

yak +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jæki/
• Rhymes: -æki

Adjective

yakky (comparative yakkier, superlative yakkiest)

1. (informal) chatty, talkative
   • 2009, 2002, Jesse Lovelace, Keep to the Left!: Freewheeling Through Ireland

     A little skinny kid had started working behind the bar, and I'd swear he was James Joyce's great grandson: thin face, thick glasses and a frail physique. He was yakky and a bit snappy and thoroughly entertaining

   • 1999, Deb Schwarz, the Rufus on Fire, Out - January 1999 issue page 66

     Perfectly charming and at ease on stage, he's equally rambling and yakky in an interview.

Derived terms

• yakkily
• yakkiness

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.