Yuck vs Tuck - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between yuck and tuck

is that yuck is something disgusting while tuck is an act of tucking; a pleat or fold.

As verbs the difference between yuck and tuck

is that yuck is to itch while tuck is to pull or gather up (an item of fabric).

As an interjection yuck

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

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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tuck
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at touch.
Verb
(en verb)
(lb) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).

(lb) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.

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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

(lb) To fit neatly.

:

To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.

:

To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.

:

To full, as cloth.

To conceal one’s genitals, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.

:

(lb) To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.

Antonyms
* untuck
Derived terms
* tuck away * tuck in * tuck into * nip and tuck
Noun
(en noun)
An act of tucking ; a pleat or fold.

(sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.

A curled position.

(medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.

(music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.

(diving) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.

Related terms
* tucker
Etymology 2
From (etyl)
Noun
(en noun)
(archaic) A rapier, a sword.

* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by (Samuel Butler), part 1,

[...] with force he labour'd / To free's blade from retentive scabbard; / And after many a painful pluck, / From rusty durance he bail'd tuck [...]

(Shakespeare)

* Sir Walter Scott

He wore large hose, and a tuck , as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length.

Etymology 3
Compare tocsin.
Noun
(en noun)
The beat of a drum.

Etymology 4
(etyl) .
Noun
(-)
Food, especially snack food.

Derived terms
* tuck shop * tuck box * tuck in ----