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BBCLoverBanget Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Yakking up

Hi all, I hope you could give me some help. Another question from me: what is the meaning of "yakking up" in context as follow: She was yakking up a storm. In addition, I search the meaning in dictionary but the explanation doesn't match with the context (there, yak means "to talk continuously"); and I didn't find "yak up" in the dictionary.
  

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The "storm" part is the idiom. You can "X up a storm", the "up" being like the one in "whip up a froth" or "mix up a batter". To verb up a storm is to do it to excess or very energetically—cook up a storm (make a lot of food quickly), talk up a storm (be loquacious), yak up a storm.

— Enoon

  • The "storm" part is the idiom.
  • You can "X up a storm", the "up" being like the one in "whip up a froth" or "mix up a batter".
  • To verb up a storm is to do it to excess or very energetically—cook up a storm (make a lot of food quickly), talk up a storm (be loquacious), yak up a storm.
  • The idea is that your efforts are so drastic they create turbulent weather around you.
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The "storm" part is the idiom. You can "X up a storm", the "up" being like the one in "whip up a froth" or "mix up a batter". To verb up a storm is to do it to excess or very energetically—cook up a storm (make a lot of food quickly), talk up a storm (be loquacious), yak up a storm. The idea is that your efforts are so drastic they create turbulent weather around you.
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Mantap Om! Your explanation is excellent. Thanks.
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