yuck

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• /jʌk/
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• Ireland, Northern-England: /jʊk/
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• homophone: yuk
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• rhymes with -ʌk
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Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jakkes (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease" akin to middle Dutch "joke" and modern Dutch "jeuk"”) .

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

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sies — uttered to indicate disgust
• Arabic: يَع (yaʕ) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Arabic: يع (yaʕʕ) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Arabic: يخ (yaḵḵ) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Arabic: اخيه (iḵḵī) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Arabic: يِع (yiʕ) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Catalan: ecs — uttered to indicate disgust
• Chinese Mandarin: 惡心 /恶心 (ěxin) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Chinese Mandarin: 呸 (pēi) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Chinese Mandarin: 啐 (cuì) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Chinese Mandarin: 哎呀 (āiyā) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Chinese Mandarin: 哎 (āi) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Chinese Mandarin: 唉 (ài) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Czech: fuj — uttered to indicate disgust
• Dutch: bah — uttered to indicate disgust
• Dutch: jakkes — uttered to indicate disgust
• Dutch: jakkie — uttered to indicate disgust
• Esperanto: aĉ — uttered to indicate disgust
• Finnish: yök — uttered to indicate disgust
• French: beurk — uttered to indicate disgust
• German: igitt — uttered to indicate disgust
• German: pfui — uttered to indicate disgust
• East Central German: aeg — uttered to indicate disgust
• Greek: μπλιαχ (bliach) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Ancient Greek: αἰβοῖ (aiboî) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Ancient Greek: φῦ (phû) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Ancient Greek: ψό (psó) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Hebrew: איכס (ikhs) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Hebrew: איכסה (íkhsa) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Hebrew: פוי (fuy) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Hebrew: פויה (fuya) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Hungarian: pfuj — uttered to indicate disgust
• Icelandic: oj — uttered to indicate disgust
• Irish: uch — uttered to indicate disgust
• Japanese: げ (ge) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Korean: 왝 (waek) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Māori: haki rā — uttered to indicate disgust
• Marathi: शी (śī) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Eastern Mari: фу-у (fu-u) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Khiamniungan Naga: īk — uttered to indicate disgust
• Navajo: ih — uttered to indicate disgust
• Norwegian: æsj — uttered to indicate disgust
• Persian: ایش — uttered to indicate disgust
• Polish: fuj — uttered to indicate disgust
• Portuguese: eca — uttered to indicate disgust
• Portuguese: puh — uttered to indicate disgust
• Portuguese: iéca — uttered to indicate disgust
• Portuguese: blhac — uttered to indicate disgust
• Portuguese: blhec — uttered to indicate disgust
• Russian: фу (fu) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Russian: тьфу (tʹfu) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Russian: фе (fe) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Russian: фи (fi) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Russian: бе (be) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Serbo-Croatian: фуј (fuj) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Serbo-Croatian: бљак (bljak) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Serbo-Croatian: fuj — uttered to indicate disgust
• Serbo-Croatian: bljak — uttered to indicate disgust
• Spanish: puaj — uttered to indicate disgust
• Spanish: guácala — uttered to indicate disgust
• Spanish: fuchi — uttered to indicate disgust
• Spanish: fuchila — uttered to indicate disgust
• Spanish: puaf — uttered to indicate disgust
• Swedish: usch — uttered to indicate disgust
• Swedish: fy — uttered to indicate disgust
• Swedish: blä — uttered to indicate disgust
• Tagalog: kadiri — uttered to indicate disgust
• Tamil: சீ (cī) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Tamil: சை (cai) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Tamil: ஐய (aiya) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Tamil: கருமம் (karumam) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Thai: ยี้ (yíi) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Thai: แหวะ (wɛ̀) — uttered to indicate disgust
• Turkish: ıyy — uttered to indicate disgust
• Turkish: iğrenç — uttered to indicate disgust
• Turkish: ıyk — uttered to indicate disgust
• Turkish: ıyak — uttered to indicate disgust
• Vietnamese: kinh — uttered to indicate disgust
• Vietnamese: khiếp — uttered to indicate disgust
• Vietnamese: eo — uttered to indicate disgust
• Welsh: ych a fi — uttered to indicate disgust