Definitions for yaks

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yaks yak

Spelling: [yak]

IPA: /yæk/

Yaks is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in yaks (aksy).

Definitions for yaks

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 yaks

1785-95; Tibetan, spelling gyag

Examples for yaks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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