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Meaning of yackety-yak in English:

yackety-yak

(also yackety-yack)

noun

informal

  • mass noun Trivial or unduly persistent conversation.

    ‘you'll have to cope with the ringtones and yackety-yak of fellow passengers’

verbyackety-yaks, yackety-yakking, yackety-yakked

[no object]informal

  • Talk at length about trivial or boring subjects.

Origin

1950s imitative: compare with yak.

Pronunciation

yackety-yak

/ˌjakətɪˈjak/