Ew vs Yuck - What's the difference?
ew | yuck |
Expression of disgust or nausea.
(uncountable) something disgusting
* 2003 , The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003
(countable) the sound made by a laugh
* 2000 , The New Yorker, 13 March 2000
Yuck is a synonym of ew.
As interjections the difference between ew and yuck
is that ew is expression of disgust or nausea while yuck is Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.As a noun yuck is
something disgusting.As a verb yuck is
to itch.ew
English
Alternative forms
* eww * euw * ieuw * ehwInterjection
(en-interj) (with as many extra ‘e’s and/or ‘w’s as needed for emphasis )- Ew! There’s a fly in my soup.
- Eww! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!
See also
* ugh * yuckAnagrams
*yuck
English
Etymology 1
Synonyms
* ick * ew, eww * ugh * yechAntonyms
* yumDerived terms
* yuckyNoun
(en noun)- 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 ."
- 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.