Yuck vs Nasty - What's the difference?
yuck | nasty |
(uncountable) something disgusting
* 2003 , The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003
(countable) the sound made by a laugh
* 2000 , The New Yorker, 13 March 2000
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*2006 , Marie Fontaine, The Chronicles of my Ghetto Street Volume One , p. 156:
*:I really don't have any friends at school Mama Mia. They talk about me all the time. They say my hair's nappy and my clothes are nasty .
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Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
*:Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty .
Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
*1838 , (Charles Dickens), Oliver Twist :
*:‘It's a nasty trade,’ said Mr. Limbkins, when Gamfield had again stated his wish.
Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
*1933 , (Dorothy L Sayers), Murder Must Advertise :
*:He said to Mr. Tallboy he thought the headline was a bit hot. And Mr. Tallboy said he had a nasty mind.
*2009 , Okera H, Be Your Priority, Not His Option , Mill City Press 2009, p. 45:
*:We want threesomes, blowjobs, and orgies. That's just the way it is. We want the good girl who's nasty in bed.
Spiteful, unkind.
*2012 , The Guardian , 3 Jun 2012:
*:She had said: "I love the block button on Twitter. I don't know how people expect to send a nasty comment and not get blocked."
*2007 , The Observer , 5 Aug 2007:
*:There was a nasty period during the First World War when the family's allegiance was called into question - not least because one of the Schroders had been made a baron by the Kaiser.
*2012 , James Ball, The Guardian , 2 Mar 2012:
*:Moving into the middle ages, William the Conqueror managed to rout the English and rule the country, then see off numerous plots and assassination attempts, before his horse did for him in a nasty fall, killing him at 60.
(lb) Something nasty.
Sexual intercourse.
As nouns the difference between yuck and nasty
is that yuck is (uncountable) something disgusting while nasty is (lb) something nasty.As an interjection yuck
is .As a verb yuck
is (obsolete) to itch.As an adjective nasty is
.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.
See also
* yukEtymology 2
Compare (etyl) jucken, (etyl) yeuken, and see itch.nasty
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty , brutish and short.}}
Noun
(nasties)- Processed foods are full of aspartame and other nasties .
- This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties .