yakky

(ˈjæki)

mod. talkative. He’s a yakky old man, but I like him.

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Romero Elizabeth, Maccausland Yakky, Solorzano Lucy.

Cuidadores de pacientes en dialisis peritoneal: experiencia de participar en un programa de habilidad de cuidado

Narrated by a comic pair of animals, a yakky flamingo and an interrupting anteater, "The Goat of Many Colors" tells the tale of a diving goat with special gifts who finds his true calling in a herd of wild goats after being rejected because of his differentness by the regular herd.

The Goat of Many Colors

Yogi Bear got his own show in 1961, to be joined by Snagglepuss, Yakky Doodle and, eventually, Magilla Gorilla, Wally Gator and Jabberjaw.

Barbera: TV cartoon giant

In his first two books, Little Star and Tasker Street, Halliday established an identity as a quirky, likeable practitioner of the plain-style, a yakky, attractively neurotic but buoyant observer of pedestrian American life; an offspring of O'Hara and Williams, a surveryor of the romantic-demotic type.