| 释义 |
yakka Austral. slang.|ˈjækə|
Also yacca, yacka, yacker, yakker.
[Aboriginal.]
Work, toil; esp. in phr. hard yakka.
1888Boomerang 14 Jan. 13 The Brisbane wharf labourers..are so accustomed to hard yacker that they can't be happy for a single day without it. 1898Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Oct. 31/2 Some [swagmen] ask for ‘yacker’, some's lookin' for ‘graft’, and some's ‘after a job’. 1906[see after n.]. 1909H. Thompson Ballads about Business 91 You'll be sure to get some yacker and more country you will see. 1939X. Herbert in E. M. Fry Tales by Australians 133 It'd be a richer country if everyone..did real hard honest yakker. 1944Coast to Coast 1943 121 They'd been shoved in the background, told they weren't wanted, all the hard yacca put upon them in the home. 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) 139, I vote we leave the Methodist part alone, and go and clear up where somebody's going to get some benefit out of our yacka. 1948V. Palmer Golconda iv. 28 If there's a cove on this field making money at anything but hard yakker it isn't Macy Donovan. 1968Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 13 Nov. 6/7 Australian scholarships have always been hard yakka. 1981National Times (Austral.) 2 Aug. 29/1 He imposes some hard yakka on his readers. |