Uck vs Yuck - What's the difference?
uck | yuck |
*2008 , David Mason, Jellyroll , page 23:
* 2011 , Hollie Delaney, Understanding the Business: Journal II , page 210:
*2013 , Megan McDonald, Stink and the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers , page 13:
(uncountable) something disgusting
* 2003 , The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003
(countable) the sound made by a laugh
* 2000 , The New Yorker, 13 March 2000
As interjections the difference between uck and yuck
is that uck is while yuck is .As a noun yuck is
(uncountable) something disgusting.As a verb yuck is
(obsolete) to itch.uck
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- “Uck ,” he said. “I mean, you... you've got to be kidding.”
- Actually, I hadn't looked at my voice mail but I knew now. “Uck . Glad he hasn't been in. Is he ok?”
- Uck . This one smells like onion.
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.