to yuck
- verb
- /jʌk/
- Informal
- When I saw the moldy bread, I couldn't help but yuck at it.
- just yuck
My niece Sadie Kargman says don't yuck my Yum hashtag don't yuck my Yum.
- My niece Sadie Kargman says don't yuck my Yum hashtag don't yuck my Yum.
- And then when you did talk, you yucked my Yum.
Examples
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Instead of working on our country's problems, he's yucking it up in Hollywood; he's "shooting hoops" with the pros.
Blog text (5) -
On one of the black radio stations, they were interviewing these guys, and everyone was laughing and yucking it up.
Blog text (15) -
You know what, I'm not gonna let you guys yuck my yum.
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I can just picture him and Bibi yucking it up about bombing Iran.
Blog text (3) -
Yuck it up, clowns.
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Not long after that, I saw a video clip of Boehner and Reid at a meeting yucking it up and acting like old pals.
Blog text (15) -
Meanwhile, Obama is hanging with Jay-Z and Beyoncé and yucking it up on Letterman.
Blog text (30) -
She saw the slimy texture of the food and immediately said, 'yuck!'
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The smell of rotten eggs made him yuck in disgust.
Synonyms
To make a short sound to show disgust
Antonyms
How Disgusted
- Informal
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word yuck as a verb comes from the same imitating 'disgust' sound people make, like yuck, so to do this is to show you do not like something. So to yuck is to make or say a sound of dislike, often with a face or a short noise.