(slang) Sometimes shortened to: yak.
Means noisy, continuous, and trivial talk or conversation, chatter; gossip or to talk a lot, usually about nothing important:
e.g. That's enough yackety-yak. Quiet!
They've been yakking on the phone for over an hour.
The Sergeant...only talks when he has something to say. Everybody else goes yacketty-yack all the time