yakka

From Yagara yaga (“work”).

• yakker

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yakka (uncountable)

1. (Australia) Work.
   • 1986, Quadrant‎^[1], Volume 30, page 42:

     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.

   • 1991 July 3, Michael Barlow, “PURDITORY: Harridans [Harsoc]”, in aus.games.roleplay‎^[2] (Usenet):

     The slaves who do all the yakka could be another species, small and easily bullied. Failing that, enslaved humans will do.

   • 2002 October 22, MPD, “Drivetrain component upgrade”, in aus.bicycle‎^[3] (Usenet):

     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.

Almost solely used in the term hard yakka.

• hard yakka

yakka

1. (Australia) To work.

From Punjabi ਯੱਕਾ (yakkā), usually referring to an ace (a type of playing card) or a horse-drawn cart, but can also be translated into the English expletive fuck. However, the slang usage of the term is said to be a corruption of Yankee.

yakka (plural yakkas or yakke) (borrowed feminine form yakki)

1. (South Asia, North India, Sikh diaspora, slang, sometimes derogatory) a Sikh living in the Sikh diaspora, especially one from the West

   Antonym: dipper

• kayak

yakka

1. Rōmaji transcription of やっか

yakka

1. crime

yakka

1. alternative form of yaga

yakka

1. alternative form of yaga

• “2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN.”, in State Library of Queensland‎^[4], 13 May 2019, archived from the original on 24 May 2019