yakka

Definition

Work.

Etymology

From Yagara yaga (“work”).

Example Sentences

• "The demand for work and abortion shows that feminists have been coopted by the wimps, whose ideal is the single mother yoked to tough yakka; for it frees them to drift between bedrooms and bathhouses."
• "The slaves who do all the yakka could be another species, small and easily bullied. Failing that, enslaved humans will do."
• "I have seen way too many cheap cranksets go to the pack after a small amount of x-country and minor technical yakka off-road."