yakka

• yakker

From Yagara yaga (“work”).

• Audio (AU)

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yakka (uncountable)

1. (Australia) Work.
   • 1986, Quadrant, Volume 30, page 42,

     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.

   • 1991 July 3, Michael Barlow, “PURDITORY: Harridans [Harsoc]”, in aus.games.roleplay, Usenet‎:

     The slaves who do all the yakka could be another species, small and easily bullied. Failing that, enslaved humans will do.

   • 2002 October 22, MPD, “Drivetrain component upgrade”, in aus.bicycle, Usenet‎:

     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.

Almost solely used in the term hard yakka.

• hard yakka

yakka

1. (Australia) To work.

• kayak

yakka

1. Alternative form of yaga.

yakka

1. Alternative form of yaga.

• State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.