Definition

1. Noun:

   • Noisy, trivial, or incessant talk: Refers to loud, often meaningless, and continuous chatter.

2. Verb:

   • To talk incessantly and tiresomely: To chatter or jabber in a persistent, annoying, or trivial manner.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:

  • I couldn't concentrate on my work because of the constant yack from the next room.
  • Their conversation was just idle yack about celebrities.

• Verb:

  • He would yack on the phone for hours about nothing important.
  • Please stop yacking and let me focus on driving.

Advanced Usage

• "yack away": To chatter continuously without stopping.
  • They just yacked away all through the movie, which was very rude.
• "yack it up": To engage in lively, often loud, conversation.
  • The friends yacked it up at the reunion, sharing old stories.

Variants and Related Words

• Yackety-yack (noun): An emphatic or repetitive form meaning incessant, trivial talk.
  • It was just a lot of yackety-yack with no real substance.
• Yak (noun/verb): A common informal variant with the same meaning as 'yack'.
  • We sat and yakked for a while.

Synonyms

• Noun: Chatter, jabber, prattle, blather.
• Verb: Chatter, jabber, prattle, blather, gab.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Yack on: To continue talking tiresomely.
  • She yacked on about her vacation until everyone was bored.
• Yack about: To talk incessantly concerning a particular topic.
  • What are you two yacking about over there?

Related Idioms

• A lot of yack: A phrase describing a situation involving excessive, trivial talk.
  • The meeting was a lot of yack and very little action.

Noun

1. noisy talk

Verb

1. talk incessantly and tiresomely