| 词汇 | yackety yack |
| 词源 | yackety yack. The British used the imitative word yack for “a snapping sound” as early as 1861 and were soon after using it to mean “to talk about.” It took almost a century before Ameri- cans began to use yack and then yackety yack as terms for in- cessant talk or laughter. |
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