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🤢 Disgust sound 🤢 A disgusting thing
yech

yech

1 9.9
Something unpleasant like rotten food or dirt
  • noun
  • /jɛk/
  • Informal
translation icon : asco
  • The messy kitchen filled with dirty dishes left a feeling of yech that made her want to clean immediately.

Examples

  • - Yech!

    G-Force (2009)

  • Ugh! - Yech!

    Night of the Zoopocalypse (2025)

  • Yech, old sandwich.

    Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019)

  • "Yech," Maude said.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • I hope you can continue to attend similar affairs and report back, but you have my sympathy for having to play the game (and drink disgusting Arnold Palmers—yech).

    Blog text (24)

  • After taking a bite of the overcooked fish, she made a yech face because it tasted terrible.

  • When he opened the fridge, he recoiled in horror at the yech smell of spoiled food.

Synonyms

ick
vsyech
  • Informal
6 9.9

A sudden feeling of disgust that makes you want to move away

is an informal label for unpleasant or disgusting things causing distaste
yeech
vsyech
  • Slang
9.9

Something that makes you feel disgusted

is a milder informal word for unpleasant or disgusting things

Antonyms

pleasure
∞ 1.0

A feeling of enjoyment or happiness from something

Surface Forms

yech singular
yechs plural

Etymology

Yech as a noun means 'something gross' or unpleasant, and it comes from the same quick disgust sound people make — like calling a thing yuck. That's why calling something a yech means it makes you feel disgusted.