yacKとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /jæk/
• 韻: -æk
• Homophone: yak

名詞

yack (plural yacks)

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

動詞

yack (third-person singular simple present yacks, present participle yacking, simple past and past participle 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.

   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:

     You rode the blimp here, didn't you? Boy, I envy you. I'm dying to ride that thing, but air travel makes me yack.

   • 2024 March 2, John Gapper, “Planet Wirth”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2:

     “If we do a deal, no one ever hears about it. Others yack but Iwan never does. It is very Swiss.”

派生語

語源 2

Dialectal form.

発音

• IPA: /jak/

名詞

yack (plural 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, […]

語源 3

名詞

yack (plural yacks)

1. (UK, thieves slang, 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