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pit-yacker

pit-yacker

9.9
A person who tells stories and gossip about miners, often in a funny way
  • noun
  • Archaic
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  • The pit-yacker entertained everyone with his tales of the old mine.

Examples

  • She became a well-known pit-yacker after years of sharing stories at the pub.

  • I heard a pit-yacker share a funny story last night.

  • Every village had at least one pit-yacker who knew all the latest happenings.

  • The old miners loved hearing the pit-yacker spin tales about their days underground.

  • Every village had at least one pit-yacker who knew all the latest happenings.

  • The old miners loved hearing the pit-yacker spin tales about their days underground.

  • She became a well-known pit-yacker after years of sharing stories at the pub.

How Talkative

chatterbox
  • Informal
9 4.2
gossip
  • Offensive
41 2.2
pit-yacker
  • Archaic
9.9
storyteller
64 2.3
quiet one
4 5.3

Surface Forms

pit-yacker singular
pit-yackers plural

Morphology

pit-yacker = pit + yacker (transparent) = pit + yack + er

Formed by straightforward compounding of 'pit' (mine) and 'yacker' (talker), so the referential meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

Pit-yacker comes from the simple parts pit ('mine') and yak ('to talk'), with yacker meaning someone who talks a lot, so you can picture a miner chatting by the fire. So, a pit-yacker is a person in mining communities who loves to tell stories and share gossip.