Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Slang Used to express rejection or strong disgust.
- n. Variant of yuk1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To itch.
- n. The itch, mange, or scabies.
Wiktionary
- interj. Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
- n. uncountable something disgusting
- n. countable the sound made by a laugh
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Prov. Eng. To itch.
- v. Prov. Eng. To scratch.
- interj. an interjection expressing repugnance or distaste.
- n. slang a laugh; also, a joke or gag; -- usually used in the plural, .
Examples
“Indeed, yuck is as much learned as innate: An audience member cheerily volunteered that a 1-year-old will drink apple juice -- which is urine-colored -- out of a bedpan without complaint.”
“- Tongues are wagging - with some salivating and others going "yuck" - over”
WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat
“Thriller, I can do, but I’ll never watch another one like The Ring again .. yuck!”
“Tomarrow is wenesday aka yuck lack of sleep up early and not done untill 4 day. it sucks, and I need my sleep .... goodnight world previous - next new old profile rings extras guestbook notes email diaryland design”
“COHEN: Because it just has what one emphasis called the yuck factor.”
“An unexpected snake at close range will make me jump back, but what really sets off my "yuck" reaction is a big old slimy slug.”
What's more fearsome in the wilds, a man eating shark, or a menacing rattle snake?
“Argh. I think they're both hardware that's gone bad, but mine may actually have a bit of yuck, meaning it needs checkdisked.”
“They'd probably say "yuck" but nothing physically wrong would happen.”
“Well, you feed it to your family, and they all go "yuck," and you never can get them to try whole wheat organic pasta again.”
The Huffington Post: Maria Rodale: Organic Whole Wheat Pasta Taste Test Results!
“My two year old looking at this with me said "yuck" and "blah" at every cake--even little ones understand the yuckyness of this post!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yuck’.
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Funny Laughter Words
Words that speak humor
humor, laugh, funny, laughter, hilarity, guffaw, chortle, giggle, burst, hilarious, happy, chuckle and 66 more...
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 457 more... -
Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Autantonyms
Words with mutually exclusive double meanings. Also, here are some:
QUASI-AUTANTONYMS: slow up/slow down; bar/debar; bone/debone; burn up/burn down; fat chance/slim chance; fill in/fil...clip, cleave, sanction, handicap, fast, jibe, secrete, aloha, bimonthly, bolt, cheerio, commencement and 139 more...
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Onomatopoetics
Words formed in imitation of a natural sound.
bumble-bee, rat-a-tat, blurt, clink, chickadee, rub-a-dub, chirr, chug, keck, flim-flam, brekekekex, thunk and 94 more...
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sharmie_t's list
sardonic, ephemeral, schadenfreude, bollard, yuck, poppycock, skullduggery, sassafras, tomfoolery, phwoar, schadenfreude, basilisk and 29 more...
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words to use
parky, ninny, suckle, cineast, postface, finickity, atrocious, pry, agnostic, extempore, procrastinate, dilly-dally and 3 more...
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one grunt each
If nothing else, they're good for saying fast, sequentially.
vim, kern, fork, smock, cur, gorp, moof, shag, butt, fag, vag, frig and 9 more...
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dbca's Words
jeremiad, unto, sundry, lugubrious, fob, cromulent, foozle, eremite, factotum, guttle, toparch, comether and 20 more...
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brads79's list
gee willikers
sweet, freakin eh, whiskey tango fox..., zeppoli, yuck, golly, perv, nice, zap, pro hac vice
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wordList
my list named wordList
Tweets
Looking for tweets for yuck.

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