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exclamation jʌkjək informal Used to express strong distaste or disgust. Example sentencesExamples - I had been using different brands of oil reducers, and they all made my face feel slimy - yuck!
- We had cat hair stuck to our lip gloss, all over our clothes, just… yuck!
- They were batting their eyelashes a million times a second and showing off their best seductive smiles… yuk!
- I know I said that there are better girls out there, but I didn't think my sister would be an option… yuck!
- We all know he's still in love with Joanna and he'd never betray her with Emma, yuk!
- Some weird kid had asked his mother to make him sliced pickle on mayonnaise, yuck!
- The bread here is sweet, yuck!
- Some of their food was quite nice but some was a bit yuk!
- It's so annoying when you are in the middle of a meal and then the person behind you lights one up yuk!
- In fact I'm sure that if I did eat meat (which I haven't done since I was about 13-as the smell makes me feel sick - yuk!
- I would rather not have gotten my first kiss yet than have gotten it from the creep I did… yuck!
- A part of one of my courses requires that I do some creative short story writing… yuck!
- CREEPY-crawliesfound themselves in the spotlight this week in Carlow and no one dared - not even once, to utter the word… yuk!
noun jʌkjək mass nouninformal Something messy or disgusting. I can't bear the sight of blood and yuck Example sentencesExamples - I was born naked, bald, covered in yuck and screaming.
- The insomnia building may or may not have contributed to my yuck on the Spanish exam.
- By eating all those gross yuck foods your tummy will have a riot
- Look at this messy bunch of used napkins, all with yuck inside.
- Fruit cocktails are not just awful, they are yuck, especially re-fresher.
- A couple of weeks back I was feeling exhausted, had a splitting headache, intense muscle pain, all in all yuck.
- The last thing you want is a lifetime of arm stubble, yuck.
Synonyms dirt, muck, grime, mud, mire, sludge, slime, ooze, foul matter
Origin 1960s (originally US): imitative. Rhymes buck, Canuck, chuck, cluck, cruck, duck, luck, muck, pluck, puck, ruck, schmuck, shuck, struck, stuck, suck, truck, tuck, upchuck verb jʌkjək [no object]North American informal 1Laugh heartily. he has them yucking at him one moment and at themselves the next - 1.1yuck it up Act so as to cause laughter; fool around.
cops tend to yuck it up, probably to cover their nervousness Example sentencesExamples - There was a festive atmosphere in the theatre on opening night, and many in attendance were seriously yucking it up.
- There's a fine shot of him yucking it up in Beijing with former Chicom boss Jiang Zemin, aka the Robin Williams of the Middle Kingdom.
- Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Shroeder and Vlad Putin were yukking it up at the G8 conference with jokes to one another about British cuisine.
- Japanese soldiers really knew how to yuck it up.
- Over there is the circus Fat Man, Preston Lacy, yucking it up for your viewing pleasure.
noun jʌkjək North American informal A hearty laugh. clever writing and oddball characters make for some satisfying yucks Example sentencesExamples - We'll work her slow, soften her up and have some yucks while we're at it.
- It doesn't have as many yucks and guffaws as the original, but it can hold it's own as a fairly good comedy.
- Anybody who appreciates a good yuck was sad to see the Minutemen pack up their pickups and go home.
- Even timeless yucks, such as men dressed in women's clothes, are fumbled.
- It's not just yucks, but there's a lot of funny in it too.
- Don't expend too many yucks straight away because there are quite a few other thigh-slappers in her essay.
- I think we can all agree that the yays outweigh the yucks and therefore life is grand.
Origin 1930s (theatrical slang): probably imitative. exclamationjəkyək informal Used to express strong distaste or disgust. Example sentencesExamples - We had cat hair stuck to our lip gloss, all over our clothes, just… yuck!
- They were batting their eyelashes a million times a second and showing off their best seductive smiles… yuk!
- The bread here is sweet, yuck!
- We all know he's still in love with Joanna and he'd never betray her with Emma, yuk!
- It's so annoying when you are in the middle of a meal and then the person behind you lights one up yuk!
- CREEPY-crawliesfound themselves in the spotlight this week in Carlow and no one dared - not even once, to utter the word… yuk!
- I know I said that there are better girls out there, but I didn't think my sister would be an option… yuck!
- Some weird kid had asked his mother to make him sliced pickle on mayonnaise, yuck!
- Some of their food was quite nice but some was a bit yuk!
- I would rather not have gotten my first kiss yet than have gotten it from the creep I did… yuck!
- I had been using different brands of oil reducers, and they all made my face feel slimy - yuck!
- In fact I'm sure that if I did eat meat (which I haven't done since I was about 13-as the smell makes me feel sick - yuk!
- A part of one of my courses requires that I do some creative short story writing… yuck!
nounjəkyək informal Something messy or disgusting. I can't bear the sight of blood and yuck Example sentencesExamples - The insomnia building may or may not have contributed to my yuck on the Spanish exam.
- A couple of weeks back I was feeling exhausted, had a splitting headache, intense muscle pain, all in all yuck.
- Look at this messy bunch of used napkins, all with yuck inside.
- By eating all those gross yuck foods your tummy will have a riot
- I was born naked, bald, covered in yuck and screaming.
- Fruit cocktails are not just awful, they are yuck, especially re-fresher.
- The last thing you want is a lifetime of arm stubble, yuck.
Synonyms dirt, muck, grime, mud, mire, sludge, slime, ooze, foul matter
Origin 1960s (originally US): imitative. verbjəkyək [no object]North American informal 1Laugh heartily. - 1.1yuck it up Act so as to cause laughter; fool around.
Example sentencesExamples - Over there is the circus Fat Man, Preston Lacy, yucking it up for your viewing pleasure.
- Japanese soldiers really knew how to yuck it up.
- There was a festive atmosphere in the theatre on opening night, and many in attendance were seriously yucking it up.
- Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Shroeder and Vlad Putin were yukking it up at the G8 conference with jokes to one another about British cuisine.
- There's a fine shot of him yucking it up in Beijing with former Chicom boss Jiang Zemin, aka the Robin Williams of the Middle Kingdom.
nounjəkyək North American informal A hearty laugh. Example sentencesExamples - I think we can all agree that the yays outweigh the yucks and therefore life is grand.
- Even timeless yucks, such as men dressed in women's clothes, are fumbled.
- It doesn't have as many yucks and guffaws as the original, but it can hold it's own as a fairly good comedy.
- Anybody who appreciates a good yuck was sad to see the Minutemen pack up their pickups and go home.
- It's not just yucks, but there's a lot of funny in it too.
- Don't expend too many yucks straight away because there are quite a few other thigh-slappers in her essay.
- We'll work her slow, soften her up and have some yucks while we're at it.
Origin 1930s (theatrical slang): probably imitative. |