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yackety-yak

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yack·e·ty-yak  (yk-t-yk)
n. Slang
Prolonged, sometimes senseless talk.

[Imitative.]

yackety-yak [ˌjækɪtɪˈjæk]
n
Slang noisy, continuous, and trivial talk or conversation Sometimes shortened to yak
[of imitative origin]
Translations
yackety-yak (inf)
vischnattern (inf), → quasseln (inf)
nBlabla nt (pej inf), → Gequassel nt (pej inf); listen to those two, yackety-yakhör dir mal die beiden Schnattergänse an (inf); it was yackety-yak all eveningden ganzen Abend nichts als Gequatsche (inf)or Geschnatter (inf)


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