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You can make 5 words from yuck according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of yuck

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Definitions and meaning of yuck

yuck

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʌk/
• Homophone: yuk
• Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jak (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease”).

Interjection

yuck

1. Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour. [from 1966]

   Antonym: yum

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:yuck

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

yuck (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) Something disgusting.

Verb

yuck (third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)

1. To say "yuck"; to express disgust.
2. To vomit or gag;
3. (euphemistic) fuck.

Etymology 2

Imitative

Noun

yuck (plural yucks)

1. The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh.

Verb

yuck (third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)

1. (often followed by "up") To laugh or joke.

See also

• yuk

Etymology 3

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Verb

yuck (third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)

1. To yank or grab.

Etymology 4

Verb

yuck (third-person singular simple present yucks, present participle yucking, simple past and past participle yucked)

1. Alternative form of yawk (“to inflict a violent impact upon”)

Etymology 5

Noun

yuck (plural yucks)

1. (US, military, slang) Synonym of yearling (“a sophomore at West Point military academy”)
   • 2008, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly (volume 67, issues 1-4, page 126)

     Amy tells us that her husband, Jim Nelson, is deployed to Afghanistan […] as a nuclear operations officer — a result of graduating from the Naval Postgraduate School in December 2007 with a master's in Applied Physics. I guess I should have been looking for Jim to partner up with for physics help as a Yuck!

See also

• yuck fou

Scots

Etymology

Presumably of the same roots as English chuck, itself from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from Gaulish *śokka (compare Breton soc'h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”).

Verb

yuck (third-person singular simple present yuck, present participle yuckin, simple past yuckit, past participle yuckit)

1. to chuck, to throw

   A yuckit it inti the bucket. ― I chucked it into the bucket

Noun

yuck (plural yucks)

1. a throw
2. a small stone that can be thrown