yuck

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/jʌk/
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/jʌk/ · /jʊk/

Definition of yuck

11 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

intj

  1. Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
    “Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!”
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intj

  1. Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
    “Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!”

noun

  1. (uncountable)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. (derogatory, informal, uncountable)A general insult.
    “Alright, settle down, you yucks!”
  3. The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh.
  4. (US, slang)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 a Yuck!”

verb

  1. To say "yuck"; to express disgust.
    “I yucked and yicked and spit in the dirt .”
    “Dom was yucking and yelling. He was clumsy and barely got as many with two hands as Mouse did with one.”
    “He was yucking loudly at the plate in front of him.”
    “I shall tell the other one which cream to apply first and then the steps in order, but no yucking will I tolerate.”
    “We are not interested in yucking anyone's yum or shaming anyone who has fantasies or fetishes about ideas of this reallife violence.”
  2. To vomit or gag;
    “She thought it was overpoweringly gross and yucked great dribbles over the front of her lace blouse .”
    “And she yucked. She forced herself to eat again. And again she yucked.”
    “As he yucked his guts up mere feet from the little passageway, all of John's shame came crumbling down upon him.”
  3. (euphemistic)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."”
    “But when I was out there, I yucked up everything.”
    “Boy, you sure as hell yucked this up.”
  4. (often)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 .”
    “His buddies yucked and laughed as they motored away.”
    “Ori wiped his cheek and yucked again.”
    “The whole room yucked and tittered.”
  5. To yank or grab.
    “Briggs yucked the mare about, and she stood straight up seven or eight times.”
    “I took it bad when it were lifted and yucked into a truck and shifted”
    “Bey don't leave me bey, f***k that other nigga mjay and let me talk to you (I yucked my hand away and kept on walking)”
  6. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of yawk (“to inflict a violent impact upon”).

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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"”) .

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