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uck

/ʌk/

uck is the alternative form of yuck.

uck is the alternative form of suck.

Meaning of yuck

Interjection

  1. Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
    • Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!
    Synonyms:
    ack, agh, argh, bah, barf, bleah, blech, bleck, bleh, eugh
    Antonyms:
    yum

See all 10 meanings of yuck

Meaning of suck

Noun

suck (countable and uncountable, plural sucks)

  1. An instance of drawing something into one's lungs by inhaling or into one's mouth by suction.
    • Bammer agreed “Probably a good idea,” he agreed with a quick suck on his straw, “won't stop you from picking up any of these chicks, though.”2001, D. Martin Doney, Prayer Capsule: A Book of Honesty, page 261
  2. (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
    • The infant took suck in an instant, pulling strongly.2010, Barbara Tieken, Bull Vaulter: Alena of the Isle of Green, page 202
  3. An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
    • On a proper workbench this can often be achieved between the end vice and a dog, though more sophisticated products use either the suck of a vacuum cleaner or just friction.2005, Nick Gibbs, Ultimate Woodworking Course, page 136
  4. (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.
    • Vacuum for the park Mosuc is a street and park vacuum cleaner which its designers, Hollowell Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan, like to claim has more suck than most[.]1972, Design, numbers 277-282, page 68
  5. A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
    • Marvelous stories were told of "the suck" in early times. It was said that the water was so compressed that it would bear an ax.1879, Edward Deering Mansfield, Personal Memories, Social, Political, and Literary, page 302
  6. (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
    • “Why're you bothering to take her anywhere? I can't stand traveling with her. You're such a suck,” her sister said. Waved her smoke. “No fucking way I'm going.”1999, Hiromi Goto, “Drift”, in Ms., volume 9, number 3, pages 82–6
    Synonyms:
    sook, sooky baby

See all 19 meanings of suck

Proper noun capitalized: Uck

Uck

  1. A river in East Sussex, England, which joins the Sussex Ouse.

Synonyms of uck

Origin of uck

See ucker.

Words that rhyme with uck

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Questions about uck

What does uck mean?
Uck means a river in East Sussex, England, which joins the Sussex Ouse.
What is uck the alternative form of?
Uck is the alternative form of yuck.
What part of speech is uck?
Uck is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce uck?
Uck is pronounced /ʌk/.

Words near uck in the dictionary

  1. Uchturpan
  2. uchucchacuaite
  3. UCI
  4. ucipital mapilary
  5. UCISA
  6. uck
  7. Uckange
  8. ucker
  9. uckers
  10. Uckewallist
  11. Uckewallists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uck (page history and authors); Uck (page history and authors); yuck (page history and authors); suck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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