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yackety

yackety adjective: talkative, garrulous.

Adjective

yackety (comparative more yackety, superlative most yackety)

  1. (informal) talkative, garrulous
    • I don't remember why I was in such a yackety mood. My mouth was obviously going much faster than my brain's ability to keep up!2009, David L. Thomas, A Teacher's Gift, page 33
    • But Mr. Eighner was such an agreeably yackety companion that his plight sometimes felt abstract.2009 March 25, Dwight Garner, “Dispatches From the Streets: The Grim Particulars of Homelessness”, in New York Times

Forms of yackety

comparativemore yackety
superlativemost yackety

Questions about yackety

What does yackety mean?
Yackety means talkative, garrulous.
What part of speech is yackety?
Yackety is an adjective.

Words near yackety in the dictionary

  1. yacker
  2. yackers
  3. yacket
  4. yacketayak
  5. yacketayakking
  6. yackety
  7. yackety-yack
  8. yackety-yacked
  9. yackety-yacking
  10. yackety-yacks
  11. yackety-yak

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