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yakety-yak

/yak-i-tee-yak/US // ˈyæk ɪ tiˈyæk //

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    yak·e·ty-yakked, yak·e·ty-yak·king,

    • : Slang. yak.

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Examples

  • “I happened upon yak butter tea, a traditional high-energy food eaten by Tibetans,” Asprey says.

  • This was the place where I had met the yak herds two months before when they were pasturing their yaks on the grassy uplands.

  • The yak dung is in many places the only fuel to be got and is most carefully picked up.

  • In the Rongbuk Valley there was no wood and our supply of yak dung had to come up from Chbuk.

  • He was walking with a disciple on the mountain one day, when they found an old yak's horn lying in the path.

  • It might be supposed that so hairy an animal as the yak would become dirty and unkempt.