Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Repugnant; disgusting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective slang repugnant or distasteful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective colloquial Of something highly offensive; causing
aversion ordisgust .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
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Examples
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Those little guys with built in yucky/cool radars.
The Ghost Map (copy) ____Maggie 2008
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That seemed a low estimate, given how many young women failed to warm to Morgan’s characterizations of them as boyfriend-pleasing, power-averse dopes who didn’t recognize their own servitude and used the word yucky.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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That seemed a low estimate, given how many young women failed to warm to Morgan’s characterizations of them as boyfriend-pleasing, power-averse dopes who didn’t recognize their own servitude and used the word yucky.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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That seemed a low estimate, given how many young women failed to warm to Morgan’s characterizations of them as boyfriend-pleasing, power-averse dopes who didn’t recognize their own servitude and used the word yucky.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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That seemed a low estimate, given how many young women failed to warm to Morgan’s characterizations of them as boyfriend-pleasing, power-averse dopes who didn’t recognize their own servitude and used the word yucky.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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My sources tell me Tom found Heidi's rendition to be "yucky" - then instructed Katie Holmes to grow a mustache.
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He was covered in yucky stuff, they all said it was from Mom’s play-center!, so there must be a lot of stuff inside there.
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He was covered in yucky stuff, they all said it was from Mom’s play-center!, so there must be a lot of stuff inside there.
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He was covered in yucky stuff, they all said it was from Mom’s play-center!, so there must be a lot of stuff inside there.
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There were beautiful things, like fragrant flowers and bundles of bright green herbs, as well as "yucky" things, like the heads of freshly slaughtered pigs.
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