Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slang Repugnant; disgusting.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. slang repugnant or distasteful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Examples
“Those little guys with built in yucky/cool radars.”
“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.”
“My sources tell me Tom found Heidi's rendition to be "yucky" - then instructed Katie Holmes to grow a mustache.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The veteran aid official describes the military as "one of the most disorganized, kind of yucky rebel movements — no ideological core, useless administrators.”
“But now I just find it kind of yucky and I feel morose when I think about it.”
“The weather has been unseasonably "yucky" for those of us used to the beautiful envy-producing blue skies of Sarasota winters.”
The Huffington Post: Lael Hazan: Strawberry Fields Forever: Valentine's Day Strawberry Gelato Recipe
“I thik women do not have the typical symptoms and just feel "yucky"...and when they relay this info to the docs- they are not treated in the same manner that the men are, and they end up suffering 10 times more.”
“It's kind of yucky with all those homeless people and all.”
People suffering and dying? Let's look at the bright side of that...
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yucky’.
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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EN - baby talk
neigh-neigh, super-duper, mumbo-jumbo, silly-billy, okey-dokey, topsy-turvy, binkie-winkie, ba-ba, bot-bot, pom-pom, kaka, aye-aye and 84 more...
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Twitter favourites
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:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
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:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
words my 19-month-old daughter says
We'll skip people's names.
basketball, light, railroad, mommy, daddy, up, hand, gate, walk, kitty, doggie, cat and 145 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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5-1
Hecko, words! Thanks for staying with me. :-)
avenue, viscous, zeroth, usher, scarcely, viability, snout, sole, purify, riotous, menace, moist and 364 more...
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paperkingdoms's Words
osculating, guitar, iris, fourier, integral, boisterous, tea, graphic, lemma, espresso, shiny, 'verse and 5 more...
Tweets
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