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yuck
[yuhk]
interjection
(used as an expression of disgust or repugnance).
Yuck, it's spinach again!
yuck
/ ʌ /
interjection
slangan exclamation indicating contempt, dislike, or disgust
Word History and Origins
Origin of yuck1
Example Sentences
In RoboCop, our yuck factor is carefully held at bay by the cyborg's tough, robotic exterior, but when Peter Weller, playing Adam Murphy/RoboCop, removes his helmet and we, and his partner Anne Lewis, truly see how his human body has been forcibly meshed with mechanical parts, it's not for nothing that he tells her "you may not like what you see."
But Xu argues that the yuck factor is not a sound basis for deducing what's ethical and what's not.
There's also what Nicole Xu, a bioengineer and research scientist who runs the Xu lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, calls the "yuck factor" — the reflexive sense of revulsion many of us feel at the mere idea of an animal, even an insect, modified with mechanical parts and stripped of free will.
After the host admitted that, well, he couldn’t kiss a man either — “It does not make me homophobic to not want to kiss a man,” Maher said, “just like lots of gay men are like, ‘p—, yuck.’”
Among the former, Loïc Espuche’s French charmer “Yuck!” depicts consensual kissing as a pink, sparkly tell on people’s lips, which creates an inconvenient problem for any kid disgusted by adults smooching but secretly interested in trying it.
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When To Use
Yuck is an informal word you say when you think something is gross or disgusting.It’s an interjection, which is a term used to express an emotion or indicate how you feel about something, typically outside of a sentence.Yuck is primarily used to indicate that you think a food is particularly disgusting or unappetizing. It can be used upon actually tasting something or simply upon looking at it, smelling, or maybe even feeling it—you might say yuck if something feels slimy, for example.Yuck is also sometimes used to express disgust about other things, such as something filthy or unpleasant weather, as in It’s so hot and sticky outside. Yuck.The adjective yucky is based on yuck and means gross, disgusting, or unappetizing. Yucky is associated with its use by children and is often thought of as a childish term. (While yuck is often used by children, especially those refusing to eat their vegetables, it’s commonly used in many ways that don’t sound childish.) Yuck is sometimes used in an even more informal way to mean about the same thing as yucky, as in My day was just yuck. The word yum can be thought of as the opposite of yuck, especially in response to food. Yum is an interjection used to indicate that you think something is delicious or looks appetizing. Like yuck, it can also be used in contexts other than food, such as to express that something is appealing.An even more informal variant of yuck is yucko, which can be used both as an interjection and an adjective.Yuck is sometimes used as an alternate spelling of the term yuk, which can be a noun meaning a loud laugh or a verb meaning to laugh or joke. (The spelling yuk can also be used as a variant of the interjection yuck.)Example: Broccoli? Yuck! I’d rather eat my own socks.
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