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Yakka

2 stages from Yagara to English.

Today it means hard work, especially manual labor, in Australian and New Zealand slang
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Stage 1 of 2
yaga
Yagara · 1800s
"work"
work, labor
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Stage 2 of 2
yakka
English · 1840s
"hard work"
adopted into Australian English slang for hard physical work
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