Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to yak
Participle: yakked
Gerund: yakking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | yak |
| you | yak |
| he;she;it | yaks |
| we | yak |
| you | yak |
| they | yak |
Perfect
| I | have yakked |
| you | have yakked |
| he;she;it | has yakked |
| we | have yakked |
| you | have yakked |
| they | have yakked |
Past
| I | yakked |
| you | yakked |
| he;she;it | yakked |
| we | yakked |
| you | yakked |
| they | yakked |
Pluperfect
| I | had yakked |
| you | had yakked |
| he;she;it | had yakked |
| we | had yakked |
| you | had yakked |
| they | had yakked |
Future
| I | will yak |
| you | will yak |
| he;she;it | will yak |
| we | will yak |
| you | will yak |
| they | will yak |
Future Perfect
| I | will have yakked |
| you | will have yakked |
| he;she;it | will have yakked |
| we | will have yakked |
| you | will have yakked |
| they | will have yakked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | yak |
| you | yak |
| he;she;it | yak |
| we | yak |
| you | yak |
| they | yak |
Perfect
| I | have yakked |
| you | have yakked |
| he;she;it | have yakked |
| we | have yakked |
| you | have yakked |
| they | have yakked |
Imperfect
| I | yakked |
| you | yakked |
| he;she;it | yakked |
| we | yakked |
| you | yakked |
| they | yakked |
Pluperfect
| I | had yakked |
| you | had yakked |
| he;she;it | had yakked |
| we | had yakked |
| you | had yakked |
| they | had yakked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would yak |
| you | would yak |
| he;she;it | would yak |
| we | would yak |
| you | would yak |
| they | would yak |
Perfect
| I | would have yakked |
| you | would have yakked |
| he;she;it | would have yakked |
| we | would have yakked |
| you | would have yakked |
| they | would have yakked |
Imperative
| you | yak |
| we | Let's yak |
| you | yak |
Verbs conjugated like 'yak'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'yak'
oak,
yack,
yank,
yap,
yar,
yark,
yaw,
yok,
yuk,
aah,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to regurgitate the contents of a stomach
- bait, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, cast up one's accounts, chunder, disgorge, drive the porcelain bus, erupt, gag, heave, honk, hurl, launch one's lunch, puke, puke up, purge, ralph, regurge, regurgitate, retch, sick up, spew, throw up, toss one's cookies, upchuck, vomit
- To talk, particularly informally but persistently, such as chatter.
- speak
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Apparently an onomatopoeia.
Sample Sentences
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“You'll like Poppet. Nice dog. Wears his ears inside out. Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?” “I could not say, sir.” “Nor me. I've often wondered. But this won't do, Jeeves. Here we are, yakking about Jezebels and dachshunds, when we ought to be concentrating our minds […] [1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:]
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And in the last few days Clair's boundless capacity to yak about herself while Melissa listened had turned Chip against her, too. [2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:]
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She'll feel better when she yaks. [1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Glenn Guglia (Matthew Glave):]