yech
/jɛx
/ /jɛk/(also yecch)
exclamation informal
Expressing aversion or disgust: he drank the stuff, too. Yech!...
- I worked a day job back then and had to go in the evening, yech!
- but that just doesn't carry enough entertainment value to warrant the parade of yech that followed.
- If you're a man, it's track and field and swimming, but gymnastics is kind of a ‘yecch’ as far as the male of the species is concerned.
Derivatives
yechy
- The color I specified is a light green, maybe a bit yechy for your tastes, but I kinda like it!
- For only the second time that I can remember, I had to leave the room as the program was too yecchy for my taste.
- It will help keep the bulb healthy longer if you clean off the yecchy outer skin.
Origin
1960s: imitative; compare with yuck1.
- the Queen
- Thera
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- therapeutic
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- therapeutic alliance
- therapeutically
- therapeutic touch
- therapeutist
- therapise
- therapist
- therapize
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- the Rapture
- therapy
- the Rat Pack
- Theravada
- Theravada Buddhism
- there
- thereabout
- thereabouts
- thereafter
- the real deal
- the reality is ——
- the real thing