Yakka
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Yakka is a noun meaning (Australia) Work.
Meaning
(Australia) Work.
More Meanings
- (Australia) To work.
- (South Asia, North India, Sikh diaspora, slang, sometimes derogatory) a Sikh living in the Sikh diaspora, especially one from the West
Example Sentences
The slaves who do all the yakka could be another species, small and easily bullied. Failing that, enslaved humans will do.
I have seen way too many cheap cranksets go to the pack after a small amount of x-country and minor technical yakka off-road.
The demand for work and abortion shows that feminists have been coopted by the wimps, whose ideal is the single mother yoked to tough yakka; for it frees them to drift between bedrooms and bathhouses.
Word Forms
- yakker
- yakkas
- yakke
Antonyms for yakka
Common opposites include dipper.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include yidaki, yakayake, yakare, gunyah, kabana, yelaman.
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