yikes
Expression of shock and alarmExpression of shock and alarm.
» Yikes, and he's your doctor?
О боже, і це твій лікар?
О боже, і він твій лікар?
Meaning
2 senses(humorous, informal, often)Expression of shock and alarm.
Yikes! A monster!
Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes!
huch, o Schreck
(humorous, informal, often)Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.
John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!
ойoj, айaj, охox
Examples
10 sentencesYikes, and he's your doctor?
О боже, і це твій лікар?
Yikes, wait a second!
Ай! Зачекай секунду!
That's a yikes from me, sweaty.
ruФу таким быть, дорогуша.
Yikes, we are in the soup now!
deSchmerz lass nach, nun sitzen wir aber ganz schön in der Tinte!
Yikes, how cold it is!
Translations
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Origin
Attested from mid-20th century, perhaps derived from yoicks, a hunting call used to urge hAttested from mid-20th century, perhaps derived from yoicks, a hunting call used to urge hounds after a fox, which is attested from 1765–1775, that also is sometimes used as an exclamation of excitement or triumph. Yoicks is perhaps related to the earlier hoicks. Hoicks (alternatively hoick, hoic or hoik) is a variant of hyke, which was used as an exclamation of encouragement to hounds hunting deer. Further etymology unknown.
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