Ick vs Yuck - What's the difference?
ick | yuck | Synonyms |
An exclamation of disgust
(informal) Something distasteful
(fish disease)
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(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 ick.
As interjections the difference between ick and yuck
is that ick is an exclamation of disgust while yuck is Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.As nouns the difference between ick and yuck
is that ick is (informal) Something distasteful while yuck is something disgusting.As a verb yuck is
to itch.ick
English
Etymology 1
Interjection
(en-interj)!- Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and placed the frog on her hair! Ick !
Synonyms
* ew * ugh * yuckEtymology 2
Noun
(-)Etymology 3
Noun
(-)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.