Today's slang word of the day is yakkity yak. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
noun
- a person who is not on the Autistic spectrum. Used disparagingly by those on the Autistic spectrum.
"Who do you think made the first stone spear?" asks Temple Grandin. "That wasn't the yakkity yaks sitting around the campfire. It was some Aspberger sitting in the back of a cave figuring out how to chip rocks into spearheads."
Possibly coined in the cited article.
-- "Life Among the 'Yakkity Yaks'", The Wall Street Journal, Bari Weiss, February 19 2010
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
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