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Yuck

//jʌk//

Definitions

intj

1
Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!
Similar
ack agh argh
Opposite
yum

nounyucks

1
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."
2
The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh.
3
Synonym of yearling (“a sophomore at West Point military academy”).

verbyucks · yucking · yucked

1
To say "yuck"; to express disgust.
I yucked and yicked and spit in the dirt .
2
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 .

Word Origin

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 Dut...

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Yuck

//jʌk//

Definitions

intj

1
Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!
Similar
ack agh argh
Opposite
yum

nounyucks

1
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."
2
The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh.
3
Synonym of yearling (“a sophomore at West Point military academy”).

verbyucks · yucking · yucked

1
To say "yuck"; to express disgust.
I yucked and yicked and spit in the dirt .
2
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 .

Word Origin

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 Dut...

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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 a Yuck!

Similar

yearling

3

To yank or grab.

Briggs yucked the mare about, and she stood straight up seven or eight times.