yakka

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Definition of yakka

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(Australia, uncountable)Work.

“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.”
“The slaves who do all the yakka could be another species, small and easily bullied. Failing that, enslaved humans will do.”
“I have seen way too many cheap cranksets go to the pack after a small amount of x-country and minor technical yakka off-road.”

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noun

(Australia, uncountable)Work.

“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.”
“The slaves who do all the yakka could be another species, small and easily bullied. Failing that, enslaved humans will do.”
“I have seen way too many cheap cranksets go to the pack after a small amount of x-country and minor technical yakka off-road.”
(India, North, South-Asia, derogatory, slang, sometimes)a Sikh living in the Sikh diaspora, especially one from the West

verb

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Yagara yaga (“work”).

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