English

Interjection

yuck

1. Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.

   Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!

Synonyms

• See Wikisaurus:yuck

Antonyms

• yum

Derived terms

• yucky

Translations

Noun

yuck ‎(plural yucks)

1. (uncountable) something disgusting
   • 2003, The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003

     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. (countable) the sound made by a laugh
   • 2000, The New Yorker, 13 March 2000

     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 the yucks to die down.

See also

• yuk

Etymology 2

Compare German jucken, Dutch yeuken, and see itch.

Verb

yuck ‎(third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)

1. (obsolete) To itch.

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Scots

Etymology

Presumably of the same roots as English chuck, itself from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from Gaulish *śokka (compare Breton soc’h 'thick', Old Irish tócht 'part, piece').

Verb

yuck ‎(third-person singular present yuck, present participle yuckin, past yuckit, past participle yuckit)

1. to chuck, to throw

   A yuckit it inti the bucket.

Noun

yuck ‎(plural yucks)

1. a throw
2. a small stone that can be thrown

   Ye cin finnd yucks be the river.