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Yok vs Yuk - What's the difference?

yok | yuk |

Yuk is a alternative form of yok.



As a noun yok

is a non-Jew; a Gentile.

As an interjection yuk is

an exuberant laugh.

As a verb yuk is

to laugh exuberantly.

yok

English

Alternative forms

* Yok

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative) A non-Jew; a Gentile.
  • * 2006 , Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights , Vintage 2007, p. 162:
    • I'd been warned about just such a day, when the yoks would come with their white-boned fists and start knocking us about.
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    yuk

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (onomatopoeia) An exuberant laugh.
  • One, such as a joke, that causes such a laugh.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To laugh exuberantly.

    • Derived terms

    * yuk it up

    See also

    * yuck

    Anagrams

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