Meaning

1 senses
  1. (childish, colloquial, often)Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.

    The food that I ate today was very yucky.

    widerlich, igittegitt, bäh

    highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Do you feel yucky every morning?

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  2. This towel has a yucky smell.

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  3. Living in the grown-up world is yucky.

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  4. It looks really yucky.

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  5. This towel smells yucky.

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
causing aversion or disgust:

Origin

From yuck + -y. Compare Old English ġyċċiġ (“putrid”).

From yuck + -y. Compare Old English ġyċċiġ (“putrid”).

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Forms

yuckier, yuckiest
Comparativeyuckier Lesson
Superlativeyuckiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

18 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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