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

Noun (1)

yuck (uncountable)

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

Verb (1)

yuck (third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)

1. To say "yuck"; to express disgust.
   • I yucked and yicked and spit in the dirt .1994, Linda Shands, A Time to Keep, page 37
   • Dom was yucking and yelling. He was clumsy and barely got as many with two hands as Mouse did with one.1997, Walter Mosley, Gone Fishin': An Easy Rawlins Novel, page 79
2. To vomit or gag;
   • She thought it was overpoweringly gross and yucked great dribbles over the front of her lace blouse .1987, Martyn Godfrey, Sandra Scott, It Isn't Easy Being Ms Teeny Wonderful, page 130
   • And she yucked. She forced herself to eat again. And again she yucked.2011, Gregory Dark, Susie and the Snow-it-alls, page 138
3. (euphemistic) fuck.
   • 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."2004, Michael Atkinson, Life Is Amazing, page 365
   • But when I was out there, I yucked up everything.2009, Joan Hiatt Harlow, Secret of the Night Ponies, page 107

Noun (2)

yuck (plural yucks)

1. The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh.
   • Given this insecurity, the creators of “The Simpsons” took an extraordinary risk: they decided not to use a laugh track. On almost all other sitcoms, dialogue was interrupted repeatedly by crescendos of phony guffaws (or by the electronically enhanced laughter of live audiences), creating the...2000 March 13, The New Yorker

Verb (2)

yuck (third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)

1. (often) To laugh or joke.
   • And I so miss the laughs we yucked when I used to point out to you the irony of people's names in town .2006, Joseph George Hayes, A Map of the Harbor Islands, page 299
   • His buddies yucked and laughed as they motored away.2006, Dan Bomkamp, Thanks Thunderfoot, page 99

Verb (3)

yuck (third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)

1. To yank or grab.
   • Briggs yucked the mare about, and she stood straight up seven or eight times.1886, English Dialect Society, Publications - Volume 25, page 171
   • I took it bad when it were lifted and yucked into a truck and shifted1945, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 209, page 393

Noun (3)

yuck (plural yucks)

1. (US, slang) Synonym of yearling (“a sophomore at West Point military academy”).
   • Amy tells us that her husband, Jim Nelson, is deployed to Afghanistan […] as a nuclear operations officer — a result of graduating from the Naval Postgraduate School in December 2007 with a master's in Applied Physics. I guess I should have been looking for Jim to partner up with for physics help...2008, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly (volume 67, issues 1-4, page 126)

   Synonyms:

   yearling