yackety, int. slang.
(ˈjækɪtɪ)
Also yackity, yaketty, yakkety, yakkity.
[Echoic.]
Expressing the sound of incessant chatter. Usu. reduplicated or with ya(c)k.
| 1953 Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §189/2 Idle talk; chatter... Yackety-yack,..yackety-yackety. 1955 M. Millar Beast in View vi. 93 She..parks herself in the phone booth, and there she sits, yackity, yackity, yackity. 1959 S. Gibbons Pink Front Door iii. 36 She went yaketty-yak to Katy. 1959 L. Smith One Hour (1960) xviii. 231 The TV going yakkety yak. 1959 ‘J. Welcome’ Stop at Nothing vii. 113 Mildred..has been going yackety yack-yack about you to some purpose. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 26 June 5-b/5 I'm talking away, yakkity yak, and he started gasping for breath. 1982 D. Bagley Windfall xxix. 288 The Sergeant..only talks when he has something to say. Everybody else goes yacketty-yack all the time. |
Also ˌyackety-ˈyack(ety n. = yack n. 2 a; v. intr. = yack v.; ˌyackety-ˈyack(et)ing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1953 M. Dickens No More Meadows iv. 185 Our laundry's full of yackety-yacketing women this morning. 1958 Observer 15 June 15/7 A muddle-headed momma..who knows no better than to drive away her husband..by constant yackety-yack and pleas to stay at home. 1959 Woman 6 June 10/1 For once the place will be free of giggles and girlish yakitty-yak. 1960 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 3 July 1 (heading) How to dig the hips' yackety-yak. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 26 June b–14/8 A man working alone could never have enjoyed ‘chewing the fat and the yakety yaking and drinking coffee’. |