yackety-yak v.
to chatter aimlessly; thus yackety-yacking n.
![]() | Cry Tough! 66: ‘For Chris’sake,’ Jennie began [...] ‘can’t you stop your yackety-yacking?’. | |
![]() | Howl and Other Poems 10: Yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts and memories. | ‘Howl’|
![]() | 🎵 If you don’t scrub that kitchen floor / You ain’t gonna rock and roll no more. / Yakity Yak (Don’t Talk Back). | ‘Yakity-Yak’|
![]() | Exit 3 and Other Stories 163: Sometimes I wisht I was back in Jamesburg the way you guys yackety-yackety-yack like a bunch of crabbing women. | |
![]() | S.R.O. (1998) 327: ‘She followed me out of the house, still going yackety-yak’. | |
![]() | Catching Up with Hist. 23: The pair ov uz yakkety yackin over ow good a shag it woz or not. | ‘Prufrock Scoused’