Yuck

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1960s (originally US): imitative.


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Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jak(“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s.

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yuck (1)

exclamation of disgust, 1966, origin perhaps echoic (compare Newfoundland slang yuck "to vomit," 1963; U.S. slang yuck "despised person," 1943; provincial English yuck "the itch, mange, scabies"). Variant yech is by 1969.




yuck (2)

"laugh," 1938, yock, probably imitative.