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▪ I. yuck, n.1 slang (orig. U.S.).|jʌk|
Also yuk.
[Origin unknown.]
A fool; a boor; anyone disliked or despised.
1943H. A. Smith Life in Putty Knife Factory xiv. 239 Yuck is a word introduced into the language by Fred Allen. A yuck is a dope who makes a practice of going around appearing on quiz programs. That was its original definition; it now means a dope of any description. 1948R. Chandler Let. 27 Jan. (1981) 105 The public's capacity and adaptability to a quality of entertainment which the yucks seem to be afraid to give them. 1957M. Shulman Rally round Flag, Boys! (1958) vi. 67 The yucks who look at television don't know the difference between Ernest Hemingway and Huntz Hall. 1972P. Rowlands Fugitive Mind xi. 132 ‘Is your brother a yuk?’ Clare asked Sally. ‘Oh yes! He's a terrible yuk! He shouts a lot, he breaks my toys, he pushes me over.’ 1979J. Wainwright Duty Elsewhere xx. 56 Three no-good yucks had felt like playing footsie with the law.
▪ II. yuck, int., n.2, and a. slang.|jʌk|
Also yuk.
[Imitative. Cf. yech int., yuck v.1]
A. int. An expression of strong distaste or disgust.
1966R. H. Rimmer Harrad Experiment (1967) 25 Across the table; Dorothy Stapleton and Valerie Something-or-other belong (yucks, is that the right word?) to Herber Snyder and Peter Longini. 1970It 12–25 Feb. 16/4 The whole tenor of the epistle is that of one elite talking to another without reference to..those who have paid... Yuk. 1976G. Moffat Short Time to Live vii. 58 ‘Fish pie perhaps, and parsley sauce.’ ‘Yuk,’ said Arabella. 1981P. Dickinson Seventh Raven x. 130 You took a harmless animal and chopped it up..to please your God—yuck, they thought. 1983D. Simpson Puppet for Corpse xx. 172 It was the way he talked about her... ‘You know what older women are, wink, wink.’.. Yuk!
B. n.2 Messy, unpleasant, or distasteful material. lit. and fig.
1966New Statesman 19 Aug. 258/1 Rotting wodges of chilly yuck which once were apples and pears. 1971P. Purser Holy Father's Navy xxxviii. 187 There was a lot of yuk which I didn't investigate too closely, and a bit of ear definitely in the wrong place. 1977Times 17 Oct. 12/6, I asked Nancy Grimes, a freelance who arranges plants for people... ‘The offices now are so ugly and so standard, such standardized urban yuk... They want to see something that can actually survive and grow here. It gives them reassurance.’ 1981M. E. Atkins Palimpsest xii. 118 One of those syndicated advice columns... All noble sentiments and romantic yuk.
C. adj.
1. = yucky a. a.
1971TV Times (Austral.) 24 Feb. 39/2 Business was a bit yuk and I was bugged by this lack of confidence. 1973P. Dickinson Green Gene ii. 28 She's got a really yuck family, even worse than mine.
2. Comb. yuck-making ppl. a. = sick-making ppl. adj. s.v. sick a. 11.
1972Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Mar. 1/10 The BBC yesterday described a song about the former Australian Prime Minister..as the biggest ‘yuk-making’ piece of propaganda in politics. 1975Listener 7 Aug. 168/3 Nasty, yuk-making remarks.
▪ III. yuck, v.1 Canad. dial.|jʌk|
[Imitative.]
intr. To vomit.
1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 301 [Newfoundland.] Yuck, to vomit. 1981Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. lxviii. 54 [Newfoundland.] To vomit, yuck.
▪ IV. yuck, v.2 slang. (chiefly N. Amer.).|jʌk|
Also yuk.
[Origin unknown. Cf. yock n. (and v.)]
intr. a. To fool around; to act so as to cause laughter. b. To laugh. Also to yuck it up.
1964S. Bellow Herzog 119 And Gersbach, boisterous, yucking it up, poured whisky, wine, pounded the table. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 2 Apr. (T.V. Mag.) 9/2 Russ Tamblyn and Sidney Poitier yuk it up as the lightly clad barbarians; Rosanna Schiaffino and Beba Loncar play it cool as the lightly clad camp followers. 1969Listener 23 Jan. 98/3 An American watches British television..for visions of America. Stray ones move us: Wally Schirra yukking it up in space. 1974Publishers Weekly 12 Aug. 55/3 Laurel and Hardy fans..should enjoy this semi-biography... Old-timers who yukked when they saw the movies way-back-when should swell the market. 1975Time Out 11 Apr. 36/4 Pryor has them yukking at whitey one moment and at themselves the next.
Hence yuck n.3, a laugh.
1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 10 Feb. 5/2 The biggest yuks, as might be expected, are to be found right here in Canada. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 16 Oct. 10/3 The biggest yuck of the night was when Mr. T. called Mrs. Llewelyn ‘Mrs. Rreweryn’. 1977Canadian 2 Apr. 20/1 Humor is his forte. Looking for yuks? Phone Sammy. 1984Sun-Times (Chicago) 17 Feb. 49/2 The movie gets its yuks with slapstick scenes where one guy goes out the window when the other guy comes in the door.
▪ V. yuck
variant of yuke. |