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Yack

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1950, OED Evaluation: N/A

To engage in trivial or unduly persistent conversation; to chatter.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: You-- you 're lucky my mouth is shut for t-- two months. That 's why I 'm yacking. Seriously. Interviewer: No, no, I wanna hear, I wanna hear. Speaker: I can 't believe my voice is still holding out. Um, so yeah ah- my craft is really coming along and um, I made a whole bunch of stuff and I did sell some stuff to friends
Casual talk
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Speaker: I've kept you a long time !Interviewer: No! Speaker: Get- get yacking away (laughs) Interviewer: No, I going to say before, I've got ten hours of- of space on here.
Casual talk
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You-know especially if you have teenagers and mine are kind-of semi-grown up now but if you have a party and you're f-- three-feet from the next house or even a get together. When my sister-in-law got married, we had a party here. The whole neighbourhood could hear the music and the people yacking and...
Casual talk
ExampleMeaning
And ah so we had our coffee and yacked about stuff. And ah so we went back in the h-- cottage and- and he said d-- "I'm making some toast," he said, "I'm going to get in and get shaved." Well all of a sudden I heard this
Casual talk
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And the men, when they weren't working, they might be on the night shift and they would come in and sit on one of the counters, not where the food was, but on one of the other counters, hardware counter and you-know, yack away and-that. And so- (laughs) anyway, everybody smoked. And I'd get up on this, ah, to answer the phone on this little- so I could answer the phone right.
Casual talk
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And ah this one guy I yacked with quite a bit and ah he's (inc) the odd thing to- to me after we moved and got our own place
Casual talk