yechint.
/jɛk/, /jɛx/, U.S. /jək/, /jɛk/ U.S. slang.
= yuck int.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > exclamation of disgust [interjection]
foȝa1250
fie1297
faugh1542
ough1565
pah1592
pish1592
phah1593
paw1640
poh1650
sis1862
gick1905
ptui1930
stone (or stiffen) the crows1930
you wouldn't read about it1950
yeuch1964
barf1966
yuck1966
ick1967
yech1969
1969 C. F. Burke God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 76 Well, Jesus did the craziest thing you ever heard. He took some clay from the road and he spit on it…yeck!
1972 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 23 June 3/1 Yeecchhhh! How messy. A St. John's pigeon just passed his opinion of a Bayman.
1973 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 17 May 36/1 She (yecch) pins a plastic gardenia into her hair.
1975 Hi-Fi Answers Feb. 41/1 Colouration introduced by the cartridge will be carried right through the system and emerge at the other end added to the inevitable individual speaker character, result…yeech!
1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iv. xviii. 389 As for the food there—yech!
1984 N.Y. Times 30 Mar. a. 6/2 We come up with new information and we tell them and they go ‘Yecch—what a mess.’
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