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disgusting
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /d?s?k?st??/, /d?s???st??/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /d?s???st??/
- Hyphenation: dis?gust?ing
Adjective
disgusting (comparative disgustinger or more disgusting, superlative disgustingest or most disgusting)
- Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
- Synonyms: distasteful, gro, grody, grotty, repulsive; see also Thesaurus:unpleasant
- 1975 December 10, P.J. Bednarski, "Tis the season to be risque in TV spots" in The Dayton Journal Herald
- But it is much more sensible and much more fun and much more disgusting to assume that the English Leather woman is really saying "All my men wear English leather or nothing at all.".
Translations
Verb
disgusting
- present participle of disgust
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yuck
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j?k/
- Homophone: yuk
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jak (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s.
Interjection
yuck
- Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour. [from 1966]
- Antonym: yum
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:yuck
Derived terms
- yucky
Translations
Noun
yuck (plural yucks)
- (uncountable) Something disgusting.
- 2003, The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003
- 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, The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003
- (countable) The sound made by a laugh.
- 2000, The New Yorker, 13 March 2000
- 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, The New Yorker, 13 March 2000
See also
- yuk
Etymology 2
Compare German jucken, Dutch jeuken, and see itch.
Verb
yuck (third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)
- (obsolete) To itch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)
Scots
Etymology
Presumably of the same roots as English chuck, itself from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from Gaulish *?okka (compare Breton soc'h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”).
Verb
yuck (third-person singular present yuck, present participle yuckin, past yuckit, past participle yuckit)
- to chuck, to throw
Noun
yuck (plural yucks)
- a throw
- a small stone that can be thrown
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