yuk

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/jʌk/

interjection

An exuberant laugh.

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Meanings

yuk1

interjection
  1. onomatopoeicAn exuberant laugh.
nounyuk (plural yuks)

plural yuks

  1. slangSomething, such as a joke, that causes such a laugh.

    The latest yuk from Congress is called the balanced-budget amendment. It could wind up making slumps deeper and recoveries more difficult — and that's no joke.

    1992, Alan S. Blinder, Business Week, numbers 3268-3272
verbyuk (third-person singular simple present yuks, present participle yukking, simple past and past participle yukked)

present singular third person yuks · participle present yukking · participle past yukked · past yukked

  1. To laugh exuberantly.

yuk2

interjection
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of yuck (disgust)

    Yuk! Egg on my face! With my usual wait 'til it's history GCN reading habits, I opened my April Fools issue and began to read the election year news; it did not occur to this avid reader that anything was being spoofed until the second paragraph.

    1988 May 7, Nancy M. Gill, “I Don't Always Agree, But I Appreciate GCN”, in Gay Community News, page 4

Origin

Imitative, similar to the variant yuck.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with yuk

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Sounds the same

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Anagrams

kyuKuy
Cite this entry
APA

yuk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuk

MLA

“yuk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuk. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “yuk,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuk.

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