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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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puck
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /p?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English puke, from Old English p?ca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *p?kô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)p?ug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”). Cognate with Old Norse púki (“devil”) (dialectal Swedish puke), Middle Low German sp?k, sp?k (“apparition, ghost”), German Spuk (“a haunting”). More at spook.
Noun
puck (plural pucks)
- (now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit. [from 10th c.]
- 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press 2018, p. 232:
- William Tyndale allotted this character a role, of leading nocturnal travellers astray as the puck had been said to do since Anglo-Saxon times and the goblin since the later medieval period.
- 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press 2018, p. 232:
Synonyms
- See goblin (hostile) and fairy (mischievous)
Derived terms
- puckish
Etymology 2
From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).
Verb
puck (third-person singular simple present pucks, present participle pucking, simple past and past participle pucked)
- (chiefly Ireland) To hit, strike. [from 19th c.]
Noun
puck (plural pucks)
- (ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game. [from 19th c.]
- 1886, Boston Daily Globe (28 February), p 2:
- In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used.
- 1886, Boston Daily Globe (28 February), p 2:
- (chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck. [from 20th c.]
- 2004, Art Directors Annual, v 83, Rotovision, p 142:
- He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal puck.
- 2004, Art Directors Annual, v 83, Rotovision, p 142:
- (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair. [from 20th c.]
- (hurling, camogie) A penalty shot.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Danish: puck
- ? German: Puck
- ? Swedish: puck
Translations
See also
- Hockey puck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 3
From the Irish poc (“male adult goat, billy goat”).
Noun
puck (plural pucks)
- (Ireland, rural) billy goat
Etymology 4
Blend of pike +? tuck
Noun
puck (plural pucks)
- (trampoline, gymnastics) A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.
Swedish
Etymology
From English puck.
Noun
puck c
- puck
Declension
Further reading
- puck in Svensk ordbok.
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