Jabber vs Yak - What's the difference?
jabber | yak |
(label) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
(label) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
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, title= Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas and Tibet with dark, long and silky hair a horse like tail and a full, bushy mane.
To talk, particularly informally but persistently, such as chatter.
* 1960:' ''“You'll like Poppet. Nice dog. Wears his ears inside out. Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?” “I could not say, sir.” “Nor me. I've often wondered. But this won't do, Jeeves. Here we are, '''yakking about Jezebels and dachshunds, when we ought to be concentrating our minds [...]”'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter XI)
To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
A talk, particular an informal one such as chattering.
(slang) A laugh
Vomit.
(slang) shorthand for kayak
As a verb jabber
is (label) to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.As a noun jabber
is rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.As an interjection yak is
ugh, yuck.jabber
English
Verb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.}}
Noun
(-)- (Jonathan Swift)