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Disgusting vs Yuck - What's the difference?

disgusting | yuck |

As verbs the difference between disgusting and yuck

is that disgusting is present participle of lang=en while yuck is to itch.

As an adjective disgusting

is causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

As an interjection yuck is

Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.

As a noun yuck is

something disgusting.

disgusting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
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    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (head)

    • yuck

    English

    Etymology 1

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
    • Yuck ! This peanut butter is disgusting!
    Synonyms
    * ick * ew, eww * ugh * yech
    Antonyms
    * yum
    Derived terms
    * yucky

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) something disgusting
  • * 2003 , The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003
    • I fetched an orange from a basket and peeled it “Make sure you peel as much of the yuck' off as possible,” she said. “I hate the ' yuck ."
  • (countable) the sound made by a laugh
  • * 2000 , The New Yorker, 13 March 2000
    • Given this insecurity, the creators of “The Simpsons” took an extraordinary risk: they decided not to use a laugh track. On almost all other sitcoms, dialogue was interrupted repeatedly by crescendos of phony guffaws (or by the electronically enhanced laughter of live audiences), creating the unreal ebb and flow of sitcom conversation, in which a typical character’s initial reaction to an ostensibly humorous remark could only be to smile archly or look around while waiting for the yucks to die down.

    See also

    * yuk

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) jucken, (etyl) yeuken, and see itch.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To itch.
    • (Grose)
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