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单词 yuck
释义

yuck1

/jʌk /
(also yuk) informal
exclamation
Used to express strong distaste or disgust: Raw herrings! Yuck!...
  • CREEPY-crawliesfound themselves in the spotlight this week in Carlow and no one dared - not even once, to utter the word… yuk!
  • Some of their food was quite nice but some was a bit yuk!
  • It's so annoying when you are in the middle of a meal and then the person behind you lights one up yuk!
noun [mass noun]
Something messy or disgusting: I can’t bear the sight of blood and yuck...
  • Look at this messy bunch of used napkins, all with yuck inside.
  • A couple of weeks back I was feeling exhausted, had a splitting headache, intense muscle pain, all in all yuck.
  • The last thing you want is a lifetime of arm stubble, yuck.

Origin

1960s (originally US): imitative.

Rhymes

yuck2

/jʌk /
(also yuk) North American informal
verb [no object]
1Laugh heartily: he has them yucking at him one moment and at themselves the next
1.1 (yuck it up) Act so as to cause laughter; fool around: cops tend to yuck it up, probably to cover their nervousness...
  • Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Shroeder and Vlad Putin were yukking it up at the G8 conference with jokes to one another about British cuisine.
  • Over there is the circus Fat Man, Preston Lacy, yucking it up for your viewing pleasure.
  • There's a fine shot of him yucking it up in Beijing with former Chicom boss Jiang Zemin, aka the Robin Williams of the Middle Kingdom.
noun
A hearty laugh: clever writing and oddball characters make for some satisfying yucks...
  • It doesn't have as many yucks and guffaws as the original, but it can hold it's own as a fairly good comedy.
  • Don't expend too many yucks straight away because there are quite a few other thigh-slappers in her essay.
  • It's not just yucks, but there's a lot of funny in it too.

Origin

1930s (theatrical slang): probably imitative.

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