to yack

Examples

• All

• Whenever they get together, they just sit and yack for hours about anything and everything.

• What're you yacking about?

  The Three Stooges (2012)

• Keep yacking while your mouth still works.

  The Hybrids Family (2016)

• So she went back to putting laundry away, and I was following her around the house, just yacking about nothing.

  Fiction book (1991)

• She's yacking away downstairs again.

  Fiction book (1998)

• "Come on, the four of us will sit around the table and yack—it'll be like old times.

  Fiction book (1991)

• She loves to yack about her favorite TV shows with her friends.

• While waiting for the bus, they spent the time yacking about their weekend plans.

Synonyms

C

to chatter

vsto yack

86 2.7

To talk quickly and without stopping about unimportant things

is less lively and more tiring or annoying to listeners

Y

to yammer

vsto yack

• Informal

14 9.0

Talk loudly for a long time while complaining

is less about loud complaining and more about trivial, endless talk

P

to prattle

vsto yack

9 8.4

To talk on and on in a silly way about unimportant things

is less about foolishness and more about being tiresomely constant

J

to jaw

vsto yack

• Informal

6 7.7

To talk for a long time in a relaxed, often boring way

is more insistent and annoying rather than simply leisurely

R

to rattle on

vsto yack

• Informal

5 6.6

To talk for a long time about small boring things

is more about nonstop trivial chatter than plain boredom

Y

to yak

vsto yack

• Informal

4 8.1

To talk a lot about unimportant things

is more tiresome and emphasizes being annoying rather than just informal

C

to clack

vsto yack

• Archaic

3 8.4

To talk quickly about small, unimportant things

is more focused on being tiresome and persistently trivial

Y

to yap

vsto yack

• Informal

2 7.7

To talk a lot in an annoying, noisy way

is less loud and more about boredom and trivial content

Y

to yap away

vsto yack

• Informal

1 8.4

To talk without stopping in an annoying way

is similar but puts greater focus on trivial content

G

to gabble

vsto yack

1 7.9

To talk quickly and unclearly so others cannot understand you

is slower and clearer but more boring and trivial

G

to gab

vsto yack

• Informal

1 6.9

To talk a lot about small unimportant things

is more negative, stressing endless and tiresome talking

Y

to yack away

vsto yack

• Informal

1 9.1

Talk for a long time in a way that annoys other people

is similar but stresses triviality as well as annoyance

R

to rabbit on

vsto yack

• UK

1 8.7

To talk for a long time in a noisy, excited way about small things

is more flatly tiresome and trivial rather than excited or noisy

W

to witter

vsto yack

• UK

1 9.3

To talk for a long time about unimportant things in a boring way

is similar but emphasizes nonstop talking over mere annoyance

Y

to yabber

vsto yack

• Australian

9.9

To talk quickly and without stopping about unimportant things

is less about speed and more about being tiresome and trivial

G

to gassing

vsto yack

• UK

8.1

To talk a lot about unimportant things

is more negative, stressing annoyance and triviality rather than friendliness

B

to bibble

vsto yack

• Archaic

9.9

To speak quickly in a confused or silly way

is more coherent but more annoyingly persistent about trivial points

B

to blellum

vsto yack

• Slang

9.9

To talk a lot in a silly, pointless way

is less silly and more plain annoying and tiresome

P

to piffle

vsto yack

• Informal

9.9

To talk or act in a silly, unimportant way

is more about constant talking that tires the listener rather than foolishness

T

to twaddle

vsto yack

• Archaic

9.0

To talk for a long time about unimportant things in a silly way

is less nonsensical and more about being annoyingly endless

Antonyms

L

to listen

∞ 1.0

Pay attention to sounds or speech to hear and understand them

Phrasal Verbs

Y

to yack away

• Informal

1 9.1

Talk for a long time in a way that annoys other people

How Talkative

to yammer

• Informal

14 9.0

to yack

• Informal

3 8.8

to babble

75 4.4

to talk

∞ 1.0

to chat

• Informal

269 1.0

to murmur

11 4.2

Surface Forms

Etymology