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Definition: Yucky |
YuckyAdjective1. Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: YuckySynonyms: disgustful (adj), disgusting (adj), distasteful (adj), foul (adj), loathly (adj), loathsome (adj), repellant (adj), repellent (adj), repelling (adj), revolting (adj), wicked (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Why did the small, yucky man say that (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) | |
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Books | |
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| "Yucky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 88.00% of the time. "Yucky" is used about 25 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 88% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 12% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
for yucky | 44 |
for kid yucky | 8 |
yucky stuff | 4 |
com yucky | 4 |
cum facial yucky | 4 |
science yucky | 2 |
picture yucky | 2 |
game yucky | 2 |
discovery kid yucky | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yucky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pështirë (abhorrent, mawkish, repugnant, repulsive, sickening). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yuckyay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Yucky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fucky, hucky, ucky, ukky, yicky, Yucay, yucki, yuckie, yuki, yuky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "yucky" (pronounced yu"kē) |
| 3 | -u" k ē | Luckie, lucky, mucky, plucky, unlucky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-u-y-y" | |
-1 letter: yuck. | |
-2 letters: yuk. | |
| 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. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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