释义 |
yackety, int. slang.|ˈjækɪtɪ| Also yackity, yaketty, yakkety, yakkity. [Echoic.] Expressing the sound of incessant chatter. Usu. reduplicated or with ya(c)k.
1953Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §189/2 Idle talk; chatter... Yackety-yack,..yackety-yackety. 1955M. Millar Beast in View vi. 93 She..parks herself in the phone booth, and there she sits, yackity, yackity, yackity. 1959S. Gibbons Pink Front Door iii. 36 She went yaketty-yak to Katy. 1959L. Smith One Hour (1960) xviii. 231 The TV going yakkety yak. 1959‘J. Welcome’ Stop at Nothing vii. 113 Mildred..has been going yackety yack-yack about you to some purpose. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 26 June 5-b/5 I'm talking away, yakkity yak, and he started gasping for breath. 1982D. Bagley Windfall xxix. 288 The Sergeant..only talks when he has something to say. Everybody else goes yacketty-yack all the time. Also ˌyackety-ˈyack(ety n. = yack n. 2 a; v. intr. = yack v.; ˌyackety-ˈyack(et)ing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1953M. Dickens No More Meadows iv. 185 Our laundry's full of yackety-yacketing women this morning. 1958Observer 15 June 15/7 A muddle-headed momma..who knows no better than to drive away her husband..by constant yackety-yack and pleas to stay at home. 1959Woman 6 June 10/1 For once the place will be free of giggles and girlish yakitty-yak. 1960N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 3 July 1 (heading) How to dig the hips' yackety-yak. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 26 June b–14/8 A man working alone could never have enjoyed ‘chewing the fat and the yakety yaking and drinking coffee’. |