YAK (yakked, yakking)

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Irregular inflected forms: yakked    , yakking   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does yak mean? 

• YAK (noun)
  The noun YAK has 2 senses:

1. noisy talk

2. large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated

  Familiarity information: YAK used as a noun is rare.

• YAK (verb)
  The verb YAK has 1 sense:

1. talk profusely

  Familiarity information: YAK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Noisy talk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cackle; chatter; yack; yak; yakety-yak

Hypernyms ("yak" is a kind of...):

talk; talking (an exchange of ideas via conversation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yak"):

blether; chin music; idle talk; prate; prattle (idle or foolish and irrelevant talk)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bos grunniens; yak

Hypernyms ("yak" is a kind of...):

ox; wild ox (any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos)

Holonyms ("yak" is a member of...):

Bos; genus Bos (wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini)

• YAK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they yak    ... he / she / it yaks   
Past simple: yakked   
Past participle: yakked   
-ing form: yakking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Talk profusely

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

gab; yak

Context example:

she was yakking away about her grandchildren

Hypernyms (to "yak" is one way to...):

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s