different between yup vs yuk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Noun

yup (plural yups)

1. (informal) A yes; an affirmative answer.
   • 1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7 (page 147)

     But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...

   • 2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling (page 278)

     Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.

Synonyms

• yep

Antonyms

• (informal: a yes): nope

Interjection

yup

1. (informal) Yes.

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

yup (plural yups)

1. (informal) Clipping of yuppie.
   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 448:

     Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels […]

Anagrams

• Pyu, puy

Catacao

Noun

yup

1. water

References

• ?estmír Loukotka, ?Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 261

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?p/
• Hyphenation: yup
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

yup m (plural yuppen, diminutive yupje n)

1. yuppie (young upwardly mobile urban professional person)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?k/
• Homophone: yuck
• Rhymes: -?k

Interjection

yuk

1. (onomatopoeia) An exuberant laugh.

Noun

yuk (plural yuks)

1. (slang) Something, such as a joke, that causes such a laugh.
   • 1992, Alan S. Blinder in Business Week (issues 3268-3272)

     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.

Verb

yuk (third-person singular simple present yuks, present participle yukking, simple past and past participle yukked)

1. To laugh exuberantly.

Derived terms

• yuk it up

See also

• yuck
• hyuk

Anagrams

• kyu

Biak

Etymology

Borrowed from a truncation of English ukulele, from Hawaiian ?ukulele, from ?uku (“flea, louse”) + lele (“jumping”). Doublet of uk.

Noun

yuk

1. ukulele

Indonesian

Etymology

Clipping of ayo.

Interjection

yuk

1. go ahead

Further reading

• “yuk” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Lacandon

Noun

yuk

1. red brocket

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juk/, [jok]

Classifier

yuk

1. classifier for humans

Noun

yuk

1. person

Verb

yuk

1. to grow

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Marshallese

Alternative forms

• eok
• yok

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [e?ok?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /jek?/
• Bender phonemes: {y?k?}

Pronoun

yuk

1. you (singular); thou.

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *yä?kwë, from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?wos, whence also Latin equus, Old Irish ech. Compare with Tocharian B yakwe.

Noun

yuk

1. horse

Uzbek

Noun

yuk (plural yuklar)

1. cargo, luggage

Derived terms

• yukxona