yucky - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From yuck + -y. Compare Old English ġyċċiġ (“putrid”).
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjʌkɪ/
- (General American) enPR: yŭkʹē, IPA(key): /ˈjʌki/
- Rhymes: -ʌki
yucky (comparative yuckier, superlative yuckiest)
- (colloquial, often childish) Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.
The food that I ate today was very yucky.
- 2007, "Queensland to drink waste water", BBC Online:
- "Don't rule out desalination because it is expensive, or recycling because it sounds yucky, or building a dam," Mr Turnbull told Australian media."
causing aversion or disgust
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: kuvottava (fi), ällö (fi)
- French: dégueu (fr), dégueulasse (fr)
- German: widerlich (de), igittegitt, bäh (de)
- Italian: schifoso (it)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: چندشآور (fa) (čendeš-âvar)
- Polish: be (pl) (childish)
- Scottish Gaelic: caca
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: kinh tởm (vi)