英语词汇“yak”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

yak1

/jak

noun (plural same or yaks)

A large domesticated wild ox with shaggy hair, humped shoulders, and large horns, used in Tibet as a pack animal and for its milk, meat, and hide.

Genus Bos, family Bovidae; the domesticated B. grunniens, descended from the wild B. mutus, which is still found on rare occasions at high altitude.

Milk products were common in the form of sour cream and butter from cows and yaks....

Butchers from Tibet come especially to slaughter yaks whose meat is then dried and smoked.
Their yaks share these high, sunny pastures with blue sheep and plump marmots.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Tibetan gyag.

Rhymes

yak2

/jak

(also yack or yackety-yak) informal

noun [in singular]

A trivial or unduly prolonged conversation: one’s time is filled with wining, dining, and yackety-yak...

He was quick to raise his voice through a cordless microphone to silence the gathering engaged in a yak.
Certainly the bombast of cable's top yak show host, Bill O'Reilly, seems anything but cool.
Likewise, Laurie Brereton, Latham's numbers man, occasionally walked the floor to have a yak to colleagues.

verb (yaks, yakking, yakked) [no object]

Talk at length about trivial or boring subjects: she wondered what he was yakking about...

All too often, diners get to the table and yack away and make the waitress come back several times.
So it was easier to let the old blowhard yak away and just nod occasionally.
This is a sweet fella, wouldn't hurt a soul, but he yaks, and yaks, and yaks.

Synonyms

prattle, blather, blether, blither, babble (on), gabble, prate, drivel, rattle on/away, ramble, maunder, go on, run on, talk at length, talk incessantly, talk a lot, chatter, yap, gossip;

British talk nineteen to the dozen;

Scottish & Irish slabber on

informal jabber, blabber, yatter, jaw, gab, gas, chit-chat, yackety-yak

British informal rabbit, witter, waffle, natter, chunter, talk the hind legs off a donkey

North American informal run off at the mouth

Australian/New Zealand informal mag

archaic twaddle, twattle, claver, clack

Origin

1950s: imitative.

单词	yak
释义	yak1 /jak / noun (plural same or yaks) A large domesticated wild ox with shaggy hair, humped shoulders, and large horns, used in Tibet as a pack animal and for its milk, meat, and hide. Genus Bos, family Bovidae; the domesticated B. grunniens, descended from the wild B. mutus, which is still found on rare occasions at high altitude. Milk products were common in the form of sour cream and butter from cows and yaks.... Butchers from Tibet come especially to slaughter yaks whose meat is then dried and smoked. Their yaks share these high, sunny pastures with blue sheep and plump marmots. Origin Late 18th century: from Tibetan gyag. Rhymes aback, alack, attack, back, black, brack, clack, claque, crack, Dirac, drack, flack, flak, hack, jack, Kazakh, knack, lack, lakh, mac, mach, Nagorno-Karabakh, pack, pitchblack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, shack, shellac, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, tack, thwack, track, vac, wack, whack, wrack, Zack yak2 /jak / (also yack or yackety-yak) informal noun [in singular] A trivial or unduly prolonged conversation: one’s time is filled with wining, dining, and yackety-yak... He was quick to raise his voice through a cordless microphone to silence the gathering engaged in a yak. Certainly the bombast of cable's top yak show host, Bill O'Reilly, seems anything but cool. Likewise, Laurie Brereton, Latham's numbers man, occasionally walked the floor to have a yak to colleagues. verb (yaks, yakking, yakked) [no object] Talk at length about trivial or boring subjects: she wondered what he was yakking about... All too often, diners get to the table and yack away and make the waitress come back several times. So it was easier to let the old blowhard yak away and just nod occasionally. This is a sweet fella, wouldn't hurt a soul, but he yaks, and yaks, and yaks. Synonyms prattle, blather, blether, blither, babble (on), gabble, prate, drivel, rattle on/away, ramble, maunder, go on, run on, talk at length, talk incessantly, talk a lot, chatter, yap, gossip; British talk nineteen to the dozen; Scottish & Irish slabber on informal jabber, blabber, yatter, jaw, gab, gas, chit-chat, yackety-yak British informal rabbit, witter, waffle, natter, chunter, talk the hind legs off a donkey North American informal run off at the mouth Australian/New Zealand informal mag archaic twaddle, twattle, claver, clack Origin 1950s: imitative.
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