yakka
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- noun
- /ˈjækə/
- Australian
:
trabajo duro
- They said that gardening is hard yakka, especially when the weather is hot.
- hard yakka
Examples
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It's hard yakka, digging foundations.
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I would, along the way, simply get stuck in and do some practical work, and I would alternate between hard yakka and planning, since these are interdependent—the ease or difficulty of a given task will always feed back into the planning of that task, necessitating revision.
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Working on the construction site was hard yakka, but the team completed the project on time.
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After a day of hard yakka in the fields, she was exhausted but satisfied with her efforts.
Synonyms
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1.6
A lot of steady effort to achieve something difficult
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3.3
Work done with your hands or body rather than by machines
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9.8
Very hard physical or mental work that needs a lot of effort
Hard physical work that makes you very tired
A lot of hard, boring work that others avoid but must be done
Antonyms
Compounds
How Hard
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yakka meaning hard work comes from an Aboriginal word like yaga that meant 'work', and today Australians use the phrase 'hard yakka' to mean tough physical work. So yakka means hard, physical effort or work.