Definitions for yak

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Spelling: [yak]

IPA: /yæk/

Yak is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in yak (aky).

Definitions for yak

noun

1. a large, stocky, shaggy-haired wild ox, Bos grunniens, of the Tibetan highlands, having long, curved horns: endangered.
2. a domesticated variety of this animal.
3. incessant idle or gossipy talk.
4. a loud, hearty laugh.
5. a joke evoking such a laugh.

verb (used without object)

1. to talk, especially uninterruptedly and idly; gab; chatter:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to laugh or joke:

noun, verb (used with or without object)

1. yuk1 .

Origin of yak

1785-95; Tibetan, spelling gyag

Examples for yak

(217 f. 192b) yak qad-i-adm; de Courteille, brasse (fathom).

He is called "yak" in Tibetan, and the name has been transferred to most European languages.

In Thibet the yak is, perhaps, the most useful animal to be found in the country.

Our store of yak meat was just at an end when Tundup Sonam killed an antelope.

The hunting tribes pursue the yak, the kiang, and the antelope.

He told me about going for yak in the snow mountains south of Thibet.

They may grow so long as to touch the ground as the yak walks.

At one of them sat two Tibetans cutting up a yak which had died.

Like the European Bison, the skeleton of the yak has fourteen pairs of ribs.

Even the ropes which sustain the tents are made of yak's wool.