# yuck
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jʌk/
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* (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /jʊk/
* Homophone: yuk
* Rhymes: -ʌk

### Etymology 1

Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jak (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease”).

#### Interjection

yuck
* Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour. [from 1966]
    Antonym: yum
    Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!

##### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:yuck

##### Derived terms

* yuck factor
* yuck it up
* yuck out
* yuck someone's yum
* yuck up
* yucky

##### Translations
#### Noun

yuck (uncountable)
* (uncountable) Something disgusting.
** 2003 December 8, The New Yorker: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."
* (derogatory, informal) A general insult.
** 2018 November 11, “Stand by Meg”, in Family Guy, season 17, episode 6:Alright, settle down, you yucks!

#### Verb

yuck (third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)
* To say "yuck"; to express disgust.
** 1994, Linda Shands, A Time to Keep, page 37:I yucked and yicked and spit in the dirt .
** 1997, Walter Mosley, Gone Fishin': An Easy Rawlins Novel, page 79:Dom was yucking and yelling. He was clumsy and barely got as many with two hands as Mouse did with one.
** 2015, Alan Pinkett, Utta Drivel Too, page 47:He was yucking loudly at the plate in front of him.
** 2015, Paulette, Echoes of Color, page 511:I shall tell the other one which cream to apply first and then the steps in order, but no yucking will I tolerate.
** 2016, Matthew Ball, Thomas Crofts, Angela Dwyer, Queering Criminology:We are not interested in yucking anyone's yum or shaming anyone who has fantasies or fetishes about ideas of this reallife violence.
** 2016, Margaret Court, Margaret Court: The Autobiography:We collected birds' eggs, gingerly plucking them from nests high in the trees and holding the eggs in our mouths as we used both hands to climb back down; sometimes they'd crack and the bitter taste of the contents would have us yucking for hours.
* To vomit or gag;
** 1987, Martyn Godfrey, Sandra Scott, It Isn't Easy Being Ms Teeny Wonderful, page 130:She thought it was overpoweringly gross and yucked great dribbles over the front of her lace blouse .
** 2011, Gregory Dark, Susie and the Snow-it-alls, page 138:And she yucked. She forced herself to eat again. And again she yucked.
** 2021, Glenn Rolfe, August's Eyes:As he yucked his guts up mere feet from the little passageway, all of John's shame came crumbling down upon him.
* (euphemistic) fuck.
** 2004, Michael Atkinson, Life Is Amazing, page 365:I can see these pro-lifer's screams of “Stop killing the foetus” turn to “I ain't taking no mother yucking nickker home to my mother yucking house."
** 2009, Joan Hiatt Harlow, Secret of the Night Ponies, page 107:But when I was out there, I yucked up everything.
** 2010, Don L. Clark, Magy la Magnifica, page 28:Boy, you sure as hell yucked this up.

### Etymology 2

1930s theatrical slang, probably Imitative. Compare the variant yuk.

#### Noun

yuck (plural yucks)