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Definition: YUCK |
YUCKIntransitive verb1. To itch. Transitive verb1. To scratch. |
Crosswords: YUCK |
| English words defined with "YUCK": Yuke. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yuck. Noble Autobots make me wanna puke (Transformers; writing credit: George Arthur Bloom; Doug Booth) Yuck! I've been kissed by a rat lady (Spider-Man Unlimited; writing credit: Larry Brody) Yuck! (The Fox and the Hound; writing credit: Ted Berman; Larry Clemmons) I can take giant turtles and dinosaurs, but leeches yuck! (The Last Dinosaur; writing credit: William Overgard) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "YUCK" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 79.31% of the time. "YUCK" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 79.31% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.9% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.9% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.9% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "YUCK": yuck factor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "YUCK": yuck-face. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
yuck | 64 |
mr yuck | 39 |
mr sticker yuck | 19 |
mouth yuck | 7 |
face yuck | 7 |
oh yuck | 4 |
yuck yucks | 3 |
mr picture yuck | 3 |
fou yuck | 2 |
center houston oh space yuck | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "YUCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | yff. (various references) | |
German | pfui (boo, oy, pooh, shame, shoo, ugh). (various references) | |
Hebrew | איחס, איכס (ugh). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vicc (droll, humor, humour, jape, kid, pleasantry, story, yuk), utált dolog (yuk), trutymó (crap, grunch, grunge, gunge, gunk, yuk), szemétláda (creep, dustbin, refuse bin, scuzzbag, trash can, yuk), poén (point, yuk), patkány (creep, crumb, rat, ratty, yuk), genyó (scuzzbag, yuk), görény (creep, crumb, faggot, Fitchew, foumart, nerd, nurd, polecat, stinkard, stinker), ellenszenves ember (ass, creep, crumb, fink, nerd, nurd, ponce, schmo, scuz, scuzz, shmo, slag, sleaze, wart). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yuckay.(various references) | |
Russian | фу (boo, phew, pooh, ugh). (various references) | |
Spanish | puaf. (various references) | |
Turkish | iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous), öğk (pah, phew, pish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "YUCK": yucked, yuckier, yuckiest, yucking, yucks, yucky. (additional references) | |
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"YUCK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Auck, ayuck, Hyuk, Iucd, nyuk, tyuc, Uccc, uck, Ucko, ukccc, uy, ycl, yeck, Yfcu, yic, yick, yicky, yoca, yock, yok, yuc, yuce, yuch, yucki, yuki, yuky, yunk, zuck. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "YUCK" (pronounced yu"k) |
| 3 | y u" k | yuk. |
| 2 | -u" k | amok, amuck, buck, chuck, cluck, duck, guck, Huck, luck, muck, pluck, Puck, ruck, schmuck, Shuck, snuck, struck, stuck, suck, truck, tuck, unstuck. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-u-y" | |
-1 letter: yuk. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-k-u-y" | |
+1 letter: ducky, lucky, mucky, yucks, yucky. | |
+2 letters: chucky, chunky, clunky, plucky, yucked. | |
+3 letters: buckeye, buyback, knuckly, luckily, muckily, puckery, quickly, unlucky, wickyup, yuckier, yucking. | |
+4 letters: buckayro, buckeyes, bullocky, buybacks, chunkily, hummocky, keypunch, mullocky, pluckily, quackery, tussocky, wickyups, yuckiest. | |
+5 letters: buckayros, buckyball, cuckoldry, cyberpunk, gunnysack, leukocyte, puckishly, unluckily. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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