yucks

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English:

yuck

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definitions

interjection

  1. 'ew'; 'yuck'; expression of disgust

    2. My chicken pox has become worse. Yucks (10x)! It makes my body look like a toad —disgusting!! I hate chicken pox!!!

    — 2011, Ee Lin See. My Kiasu Teenage Life in Singapore. Monsoon Books Pte. Limited. ISBN: 9789814358606

    A lot of ang moh kids right, they are like very young then they go put like all the makeup, then like Ariana Grande. Then they need to use like all the facial stuff. Yucks.

    — 2022, Bernice Loh (quoting Gem). Tween Girls' Dressing and Young Femininity in Singapore: Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast?. Springer Nature Singapore. ISBN: 9789811695117. p.50

    Yucks, your dog smells so bad when it's been out in the rain.

    synonyms:

    ee eeyer

usage notes

Considered somewhat childish language, though far more common in Singlish than the English yuck.


related:

-z -s

categories:

childish insults