Yack.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

yack (複数形 yacks)

1. Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”)

動詞

yack (三人称単数 現在形 yacks, 現在分詞 yacking, 過去形および過去分詞形 yacked)

1. Alternative form of yak (“talk; vomit”)

   I moved to another carriage on the train because the first one was full of people yacking on mobile phones.

派生語

語源 2

Dialectal form.

発音

• IPA^(key): /jak/

名詞

yack (複数形 yacks)

1. (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete) An oak.
   • 1877, Gibson, Leg. and Notes 50:

     If 't ash tree buds before 't yack, […]

   • 1878, John Castillo, Poems in the North Yorkshire Dialect, section 25:

     Awd stiff yack nut eeasy bended, […]

名詞

yack (複数形 yacks)

1. (UK, thieves スラング, obsolete) A watch (timepiece).
   • 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 498:

     I have got the Yacks, so do not come it. Fight cocum.

   • 1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London, volume 3, page 86:

     […] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.

参照

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

アナグラム

• YKCA, caky, cyka