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yak

1  [yak] ,
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–noun
1. a large, stocky, shaggy-haired wild ox, Bos grunniens, of the Tibetan highlands, having long, curved horns: endangered.
2. a domesticated variety of this animal.
Origin:
1785–95; < Tibetan, sp. gyag

yak

2  [yak] ,verb, yakked, yak⋅king, noun Slang.
–verb (used without object)
1. to talk, esp. uninterruptedly and idly; gab; chatter: They've been yakking on the phone for over an hour.
–noun
2. incessant idle or gossipy talk.
Also, yack, yackety-yak.

Origin:
1945–50, Americanism; appar. of expressive orig.

Related forms:
yakker, noun

yak

3  [yak] ,
–noun, verb (used without object), verb (used with object), yakked, yak⋅king. Slang.
yuk 1 .

yuk

1  [yuhk] ,noun, verb, yukked, yuk⋅king. Slang.
–noun
1. a loud, hearty laugh.
2. a joke evoking such a laugh.
–verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
3. to laugh or joke: The audience really yukked it up at the movie.
Also, yuck, yock, yok, yak.

Origin:
imit.
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yak 1   (yāk)   
n.  
  1. A wild, shaggy-haired ox (Bos grunniens) of the mountains of central Asia.
  2. A domesticated yak, used as a work animal or raised for meat and milk.

[Tibetan gyag.]
yak 2 also yack   (yāk)   
intr.v.   yakked also yacked, yak·king also yack·ing, yaks also yacks
To talk persistently and meaninglessly; chatter.
n.  Prolonged, sometimes senseless talk; chatter.

[Imitative.]
yak'ker n.
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Yak

Yak\ (y[a^]k), n. [Thibetan gyag.] (Zo["o]l.) A bovine mammal (Po["e]phagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc.

Yak lace, a coarse pillow lace made from the silky hair of the yak.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : yak
Spanish: yac, yak,
German: der Yak,
Japanese: ヤク
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yak  (1)
"wild ox of central Asia," 1795, from Tibetan g-yag "male yak."

yak  (2)
"laugh," 1938; talk idly (v.), 1950; echoic, perhaps of Yiddish origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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