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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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ruck
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English ruke, from Old Norse. Compare Icelandic hrúka, Swedish ruka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
ruck (plural rucks)
- A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack. [from 16th c.]
- In Australian rules football
- A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
- A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
- (now rare) Either of a ruckman or a ruck rover, but not a rover.
- Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
- (rugby union) The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum. [from 20th c.]
- The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks. [from 19th c.]
Usage notes
In the second Australian rules football sense, "ruck" is a gender-neutral term. "Ruckman" is sometimes considered to refer only to men, but is often considered gender-neutral. "Ruckwoman" only refers to women.
Translations
See also
- maul
- scrum
Verb
ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)
- (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
- (transitive, rugby union) To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
Translations
Derived terms
- outruck
Etymology 2
1780, from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle, crease”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkij?, *hrunkit? (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Akin to Icelandic hrukka (“wrinkle, crease, ruck”), Old High German runza (“fold, wrinkle, crease”), German Runzel (“wrinkle”), Middle Dutch ronse (“frown”). More at frounce. Possibly related to Irish roc.
Verb
ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)
- (transitive) To crease or fold.
- (intransitive) To become folded.
See also
- ruche (“to pleat; to bunch up”)
- rutch (“to slide”)
Noun
ruck (plural rucks)
- A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
Etymology 3
Compare Danish ruge (“to brood, to hatch”).
Verb
ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)
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Etymology 4
Noun
ruck (plural rucks)
- Obsolete form of roc.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)
Etymology 5
Clipping of rucksack.
Noun
ruck (plural rucks)
- (slang, especially military) A rucksack; a large backpack.
Verb
ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)
- To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.
See also
- rucksack
- backpack
- backpacking
Etymology 6
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
ruck (plural rucks)
- A small heifer.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?œk/
Noun
ruck m (plural rucks)
- (rugby) ruck
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