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yuck

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Perhapsimitative. Akin toDutchjakkes(“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare alsoScotsyeuk(“anything that disgusts”),Middle Englishyuke(“an itchy skin disease" akin to middle Dutch "joke" and modern Dutch "jeuk"”) .

Interjection

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yuck

  1. Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.[from 1966]
    Antonym:yum
    Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!
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uttered to indicate disgust

Noun

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yuck (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) Somethingdisgusting.
    • 2003 December 8,The New Yorker:
      I fetched an orange from a basket and peeled it[…] “Make sure you peel as much of theyuck off as possible,” she said. “I hate theyuck."
  2. (derogatory,informal)A general insult.

Verb

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yuck (third-person singular simple presentyucks,present participleyucking,simple past and past participleyucked)

  1. To say "yuck"; to expressdisgust.
    • 1994, Linda Shands,A Time to Keep, page37:
      Iyucked and yicked and spit in the dirt .
    • 1997, Walter Mosley,Gone Fishin': An Easy Rawlins Novel, page79:
      Dom wasyucking and yelling. He was clumsy and barely got as many with two hands as Mouse did with one.
    • 2015, Alan Pinkett,Utta Drivel Too, page47:
      He wasyucking loudly at the plate in front of him.
    • 2015, Paulette,Echoes of Color, page511:
      I shall tell the other one which cream to apply first and then the steps in order, but noyucking will I tolerate.
    • 2016, Matthew Ball, Thomas Crofts, Angela Dwyer,Queering Criminology:
      We are not interested inyucking anyone's yum or shaming anyone who has fantasies or fetishes about ideas of this reallife violence.
    • 2016, Margaret Court,Margaret Court: The Autobiography:
      We collected birds' eggs, gingerly plucking them from nests high in the trees and holding the eggs in our mouths as we used both hands to climb back down; sometimes they'd crack and the bitter taste of the contents would have usyucking for hours.
  2. Tovomit orgag;
    • 1987, Martyn Godfrey, Sandra Scott,It Isn't Easy Being Ms Teeny Wonderful, page130:
      She thought it was overpoweringly gross andyucked great dribbles over the front of her lace blouse .
    • 2011, Gregory Dark,Susie and the Snow-it-alls, page138:
      And sheyucked. She forced herself to eat again. And again sheyucked.
    • 2021, Glenn Rolfe,August's Eyes:
      As heyucked his guts up mere feet from the little passageway, all of John's shame came crumbling down upon him.
  3. (euphemistic)fuck.
    • 2004, Michael Atkinson,Life Is Amazing, page365:
      I can see these pro-lifer's screams of “Stop killing the foetus” turn to “I ain't taking no motheryucking nickker home to my motheryucking house."
    • 2009, Joan Hiatt Harlow,Secret of the Night Ponies, page107:
      But when I was out there, Iyucked up everything.
    • 2010, Don L. Clark,Magy la Magnifica, page28:
      Boy, you sure as hellyucked this up.

Etymology 2

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1930s theatrical slang, probablyImitative. Compare the variantyuk.

Noun

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yuck (pluralyucks)

    1. The sound made by a whole-heartedlaugh.
      • 2000 March 13,The New Yorker:
        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 theyucks to die down.

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    yuck (third-person singular simple presentyucks,present participleyucking,simple past and past participleyucked)

    1. (often followed by "up") Tolaugh orjoke.
      • 2006, Joseph George Hayes,A Map of the Harbor Islands, page299:
        And I so miss the laughs weyucked when I used to point out to you the irony of people's names in town .
      • 2006, Dan Bomkamp,Thanks Thunderfoot, page99:
        His buddiesyucked and laughed as they motored away.
      • 2014, Caroline Adderson,Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love:
        Ori wiped his cheek andyucked again.
      • 2018, Sarah Sparrow,A Guide for Murdered Children, page130:
        The whole roomyucked and tittered.

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    Etymology 3

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    (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

    Verb

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    yuck (third-person singular simple presentyucks,present participleyucking,simple past and past participleyucked)

    1. Toyank orgrab.
      • 1886, English Dialect Society,Publications - Volume 25, page171:
        Briggsyucked the mare about, and she stood straight up seven or eight times.
      • 1945, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor,Punch - Volume 209, page393:
        I took it bad when it were lifted andyucked into a truck and shifted
      • (Can wedate this quote?), M. J. King,My Big Brother's Best Friend, page127:
        Bey don't leave me bey, f***k that other nigga mjay and let me talk to you (Iyucked my hand away and kept on walking)

    Etymology 4

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    Verb

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    yuck (third-person singular simple presentyucks,present participleyucking,simple past and past participleyucked)

    1. Alternative form ofyawk(“to inflict a violent impact upon”)

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    Noun

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    yuck (pluralyucks)

    1. (US,military,slang)Synonym ofyearling(“asophomore atWest Pointmilitaryacademy”)
      • 2008, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates,Assembly (volume 67, issues 1-4, page 126)
        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 aYuck!

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    Scots

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    Etymology

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    Presumably of the same roots asEnglishchuck, which see.

    Verb

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    yuck (third-person singular simple presentyuck,present participleyuckin,simple pastyuckit,past participleyuckit)

    1. tochuck, tothrow
      Ayuckit it inti the bucket. ―Ichucked it into the bucket

    Noun

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    yuck (pluralyucks)

    1. athrow
    2. a smallstone that can be thrown
      Ye cin finndyucks be the river.
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