yuck

1. Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.First known use 1966

   Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!

   Synonyms: ack, agh, argh, bah, barf, bleah, blech, bleck · Antonyms: yum

1. uncountableSomething 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. derogatoryinformaluncountableA general insult.

   Alright, settle down, you yucks!

   2018 November 11, “Stand by Meg”, in Family Guy, season 17, episode 6

present singular third person yucks · participle present yucking · participle past yucked · past 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

   5 more examples

   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

   He was yucking loudly at the plate in front of him.

   2015, Alan Pinkett, Utta Drivel Too, page 47

   I shall tell the other one which cream to apply first and then the steps in order, but no yucking will I tolerate.

   2015, Paulette, Echoes of Color, page 511

   We are not interested in yucking anyone's yum or shaming anyone who has fantasies or fetishes about ideas of this reallife violence.

   2016, Matthew Ball, Thomas Crofts, Angela Dwyer, Queering Criminology

   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.

   2016, Margaret Court, Margaret Court: The Autobiography

2. To vomit or gag;

   And she yucked. She forced herself to eat again. And again she yucked.

   2011, Gregory Dark, Susie and the Snow-it-alls, page 138

   2 more examples

   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

   As he yucked his guts up mere feet from the little passageway, all of John's shame came crumbling down upon him.

   2021, Glenn Rolfe, August's Eyes

3. euphemisticfuck.

   Boy, you sure as hell yucked this up.

   2010, Don L. Clark, Magy la Magnifica, page 28

   2 more examples

   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

plural yucks

1. The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh.

   1 more example

   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 unreal ebb and flow of sitcom conversation, in which a typical character’s initial reaction to an ostensibly humorous remark could only be to smile archly or look around while waiting for the yucks to die down.

   2000 March 13, The New Yorker

present singular third person yucks · participle present yucking · participle past yucked · past yucked

1. oftenTo laugh or joke.

   The whole room yucked and tittered.

   2018, Sarah Sparrow, A Guide for Murdered Children, page 130

   3 more examples

   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

   Ori wiped his cheek and yucked again.

   2014, Caroline Adderson, Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love

present singular third person yucks · participle present yucking · participle past yucked · past yucked

1. To yank or grab.

   I took it bad when it were lifted and yucked into a truck and shifted

   1945, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 209, page 393

   2 more examples

   Briggs yucked the mare about, and she stood straight up seven or eight times.

   1886, English Dialect Society, Publications - Volume 25, page 171

   Bey don't leave me bey, f***k that other nigga mjay and let me talk to you (I yucked my hand away and kept on walking)

   (Can we date this quote?), M. J. King, My Big Brother's Best Friend, page 127

present singular third person yucks · participle present yucking · participle past yucked · past yucked

1. alternativeAlternative form of yawk (“to inflict a violent impact upon”).

plural yucks

1. USslanggovernmentSynonym of yearling (“a sophomore at West Point military academy”).

   1 more example

   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 as a Yuck!

   2008, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly (volume 67, issues 1-4, page 126)

   Synonyms: yearling