| 单词 | hard yakka |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard yakka Work, toil; esp. in hard yakka. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil workeOE i-swincheOE swenchOE swote971 swingc1000 swinkOE swinkinga1225 travailc1275 cark1330 sweatc1380 the sweat of (one's) brow (brows), facec1380 laboura1382 swengc1400 labouragec1470 toil1495 laborationa1500 tug1504 urea1510 carp1548 turmoil1569 moil1612 praelabour1663 fatigue1669 insudation1669 till?a1800 Kaffir work1848 graft1853 workfulness1854 collar-work1871 yakka1888 swot1899 heavy lifting1934 1888 Boomerang 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. 1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Oct. 31/2 Some [swagmen] ask for ‘yacker’, some's lookin' for ‘graft’, and some's ‘after a job’. 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands viii. 104 Iv yeh don't do yer fair share iv yacker this after, I'll punt ther slacks off yer. 1909 T. H. Thompson Ballads about Business 91 You'll be sure to get some yacker and more country you will see. 1939 X. Herbert in E. M. Fry Tales by Australians 133 It'd be a richer country if everyone..did real hard honest yakker. 1944 Coast 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. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) x. 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. 1948 V. Palmer Golconda iv. 28 If there's a cove on this field making money at anything but hard yakker it isn't Macy Donovan. 1968 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 13 Nov. 6/7 Australian scholarships have always been hard yakka. 1981 National Times (Austral.) 2 Aug. 29/1 He imposes some hard yakka on his readers. < as lemmas |
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