different between yus vs yuk

English

Etymology 1

Dialectal form of yes.

Adverb

yus

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of yes.
   • 1892, from Punch, or The London Charivari:

     Yus, to live in dirt, I feel is a `orrid degradation; but one thing I'd like to know, is it wus than living on it?

   • 1922, Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, compilers and editors, The Best British Short Stories of 1922:

     Wych Street? Yus, of course I knoo Wych Street. Used to go there with some of the boys -- when I was Covent Garden way.

Etymology 2

Russian ?? (jus), from Old Church Slavonic ??? (?s?, “big yus”)

Alternative forms

• jus

Noun

yus (plural yuses)

1. Either of two letters, little yus (?) and big yus (?), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet.

Translations

Etymology 3

See yu.

Noun

yus

1. plural of yu

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