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yack see yak1
yak1, yack, yaik noun
1 the eye: Whin she wis seventeen she wis sae bonniie that man’s yak wid follow her. 19-.
2 the face 19-20.
yaik verb to look 20-. etymology: Romany; from Sanskrit akshi; also attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies and Kirk Yetholm Gypsies; sense 1 also collected by Simson (1865) and attested by three of his informants; form yak attested in Shelta and by SR and JS note:

Grellmann (1787) collected the forms Aok, Jaok, Jaka with the same meaning from Continental gipsies. Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the form yok ‘the eye’ from English Gypsies.