yuck
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unknown. Akin to Dutch jak (“disgusting”).
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Interjection
yuck
- Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour. [from 1966]
- Antonym: yum
- Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:yuck
Derived terms
Translations
uttered to indicate disgust
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Noun
yuck (plural yucks)
- (uncountable) Something disgusting.
- 2003, The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003
- 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."
- 2003, The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003
- (countable) The sound made by a laugh.
- 2000, The New Yorker, 13 March 2000
- 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 ebb and flow of sitcom conversation, in which a typical character’s initial reaction to an ostensibly humorous remark could only be to smile archly or look around while waiting for the yucks to die down.
- 2000, The New Yorker, 13 March 2000
See also
Etymology 2
Compare German jucken, Dutch jeuken, and see itch.
Verb
yuck (third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)
- (obsolete) To itch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)
Scots
Etymology
Presumably of the same roots as English chuck, itself from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from Gaulish *śokka (compare Breton soc'h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”).
Verb
yuck (third-person singular simple present yuck, present participle yuckin, simple past yuckit, past participle yuckit)
Noun
yuck (plural yucks)
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