yuck
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yuck¹
- /jʌk/
- /jʊk/ Ireland, Northern England
Sounds like yuk · Rhymes with -ʌk
Where it comes from
Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jakkes (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease" akin to middle Dutch "joke" and modern Dutch "jeuk"”) .
interjection
- Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour. Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!
noun
- Something disgusting. I fetched an orange from a basket and peeled it […] “Make sure you peel as much of the yuck off as possible,” she said. “I hate the yuck."
- A general insult. Alright, settle down, you yucks!
verb yucks · yucking · yucked
- To say "yuck"; to express disgust. I yucked and yicked and spit in the dirt .
- To vomit or gag; She thought it was overpoweringly gross and yucked great dribbles over the front of her lace blouse .
- fuck. I can see these pro-lifer's screams of “Stop killing the foetus” turn to “I ain't taking no mother yucking nickker home to my mother yucking house."
yuck²
- /jʌk/
- /jʊk/ Ireland, Northern England
Sounds like yuk · Rhymes with -ʌk
Where it comes from
1930s theatrical slang, probably Imitative. Compare the variant yuk.
noun yucks
- The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh. Given this insecurity, the creators of “The Simpsons” took an extraordinary risk: they decided not to use a laugh track. On almost all other sitcoms, dialogue was interrupted repeatedly by crescendos of phony guffaws (or by the electronically enhanced laughter of live audiences), creating the unreal
verb yucks · yucking · yucked
- To laugh or joke. And I so miss the laughs we yucked when I used to point out to you the irony of people's names in town .
yuck³
- /jʌk/
- /jʊk/ Ireland, Northern England
Sounds like yuk · Rhymes with -ʌk
verb yucks · yucking · yucked
- To yank or grab. Briggs yucked the mare about, and she stood straight up seven or eight times.
yuck⁴
- /jʌk/
- /jʊk/ Ireland, Northern England
Sounds like yuk · Rhymes with -ʌk
verb yucks · yucking · yucked
- Alternative form of yawk (“to inflict a violent impact upon”).yawk
yuck⁵
- /jʌk/
- /jʊk/ Ireland, Northern England
Sounds like yuk · Rhymes with -ʌk
noun yucks
- Synonym of yearling (“a sophomore at West Point military academy”). Amy tells us that her husband, Jim Nelson, is deployed to Afghanistan […] as a nuclear operations officer — a result of graduating from the Naval Postgraduate School in December 2007 with a master's in Applied Physics. I guess I should have been looking for Jim to partner up with for physics help as
