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Yak vs Yakalo - What's the difference?

yak | yakalo |

As nouns the difference between yak and yakalo

is that yak is an ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas and Tibet with dark, long and silky hair a horse like tail and a full, bushy mane while yakalo is a hybrid cross of a yak (Bos grunniens) and an American bison (Bison bison).

As a verb yak

is to talk, particularly informally but persistently, such as chatter.

yak

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas and Tibet with dark, long and silky hair a horse like tail and a full, bushy mane.
    • Hyponyms
    * Bos mutus * Bos grunniens * - wild yak * - domestic yak
    Derived terms
    * yak shaving * yakless

    See also

    *

    Etymology 2

    apparently an onomatopoeia

    Alternative forms

    * yack

    Verb

    (yakk)
  • To talk, particularly informally but persistently, such as chatter.
  • * 1960:' ''“You'll like Poppet. Nice dog. Wears his ears inside out. Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?” “I could not say, sir.” “Nor me. I've often wondered. But this won't do, Jeeves. Here we are, '''yakking about Jezebels and dachshunds, when we ought to be concentrating our minds [...]”'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter XI)
  • To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
    • Usage notes
    * This is subject to the typically Australian 'have-a-verb' syntactic construction, as in 'I had a yak last night'. But this does not qualify 'yak' to be nominal.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A talk, particular an informal one such as chattering.
  • (slang) A laugh
  • Vomit.
  • (slang) shorthand for kayak
    • Related terms
    * yackety-yak

    Anagrams

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    yakalo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hybrid cross of a yak (Bos grunniens'') and an American bison (''Bison bison ).
  • *1924 July 8, “Breed Yaks with Bison: New Animal Called Yakalo Good Beef Producer,” Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah), page 8 [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewer.aspx?img=49928449]:
  • *:“Yakalos ” breed true to type, are sturdy and able to forage for themselves, he said.
  • *1926 December 23, “Yakalos, New Stock Breed, May Solve Meat Problem,” Indiana Weekly Messenger (Indiana, Pennsylvania), page 7 [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewer.aspx?img=11285180]:
  • *:The meat of yakalos is said to be almost identical with beef aside from being finer-grained.
  • *1975 November 2, D.K. Woodman, “The Case of the Reluctant Tibetan Yak,” Mansfield News-Journal (Mansfield, Ohio), page 4C [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewer.aspx?img=18299173]:
  • *:Instead of beefalo, he would have yakalo .

    • Related terms

    *beefalo