Yak vs. Yakalo

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.

(slang) A talk, particular an informal talk; chattering; gossip.

(slang) A laugh.

(slang) Vomit.

(slang) A kayak.

To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.

To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.

A bovine mammal (Poëphagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc.

noisy talk

large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated

a large domesticated wild ox with shaggy hair, humped shoulders, and large horns, used in Tibet as a pack animal and for its milk, meat, and hide.

trivial or unduly prolonged conversation.

talk at length about trivial or boring subjects

Example: ‘she wondered what he was yakking about’;

The domestic yak (Bos grunniens) is a long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region of the Indian subcontinent, the Tibetan Plateau, Northern Myanmar, Yunnan, Sichuan and as far north as Mongolia and Siberia. It is descended from the wild yak (Bos mutus).

A hybrid cross of a yak (Bos grunniens) and an American bison (Bison bison).

The yakalo is a cross of the yak (Bos grunniens) and the American bison (Bison bison, known as a buffalo in North America). It was produced by hybridisation experiments in the 1920s, when crosses were made between yak bulls and both pure bison cows and bison-cattle hybrid cows.