noun
yak
yak
noun
1
A large, shaggy-haired, ox-like animal from the mountains of Central Asia, including Tibet and Mongolia.
"Yaks are well suited to the thin air and cold of the high Himalayas."
verb
1
To chat casually and at length; to chatter.
"They yakked on the phone for hours about nothing in particular."
How to Use Yak
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA shaggy mountain ox, or (informally) to talk on and on about trivial things.
Common pairings
yak wool
yak about something
shaggy yak
Word Forms
yakked past tense, yak plural, yaks plural, yaks plural, yaks plural, yaks plural, yaks singular
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