Yakka
noun, verb, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Work. Australia, uncountable
"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."
- 2 a Sikh living in the Sikh diaspora, especially one from the West India, North, South-Asia, derogatory, slang, sometimes
- 1 To work. Australia
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From Yagara yaga (“work”).
From Punjabi ਯੱਕਾ (yakkā), usually referring to an ace (a type of playing card) or a horse-drawn cart, but can also be translated into the English expletive fuck. However, the slang usage of the term is said to be a corruption of Yankee.
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