| 释义 |
yucky, a. slang.|ˈjʌkɪ|
Also yukky.
[f. yuck a.]
a. Nasty, unpleasant; sickly sentimental.
1970D. Uhnak Ledger v. 79 She wanted to go to a lousy, yukky secretarial college. 1977Oxford Times 1 July 15 The sweetness is fused with enough real feeling to avoid being sugary, except for the rather yucky spoken introduction to ‘Meadows of Springtime’. 1980Sunday Times 13 Jan. 61/1 To develop an improved instrument for doctors dealing with emergency cases of perforated lungs, the research boys set to work with butchers' skewers and a lot of belly of pork. It may sound yukky to the squeamish. 1981M. Gordon Company of Women iii. 240 It's only bats, I say... ‘They're weird,’ says Linda. ‘Yucky.’
b. Messy, ‘gooey’.
1975Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 661/3 Peanut butter, that yucky staple standby of the American snack-eater. 1977J. Wilson Making Hate v. 62 Let's get these yucky things off and get you washed.
Hence ˈyuckiness.
1982E. North Ancient Enemies ix. 120 The ringing in my ears and general lassitude and yuckiness. 1984Info World 14 May 18/1 So you go for 100 shares... Let's say that by November it soars back up to 68 5/8, where it peaked before all this market yuckiness began. |