yack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jæk/
- Rhymes: -æk
- Homophone: yak
Verb
yack (third-person singular simple present yacks, present participle yacking, simple past and past participle yacked)
- (slang) to vomit, usually because of intoxication
- (colloquial) to talk incessantly
- I moved to another carriage on the train because the first one was full of people yacking on mobile phones.
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jak/
Further reading
- “yack” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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