Yak vs Yuck - What's the difference?
yak | yuck |
An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas and Tibet with dark, long and silky hair a horse like tail and a full, bushy mane.
To talk, particularly informally but persistently, such as chatter.
* 1960:' ''“You'll like Poppet. Nice dog. Wears his ears inside out. Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?” “I could not say, sir.” “Nor me. I've often wondered. But this won't do, Jeeves. Here we are, '''yakking about Jezebels and dachshunds, when we ought to be concentrating our minds [...]”'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter XI)
To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
A talk, particular an informal one such as chattering.
(slang) A laugh
Vomit.
(slang) shorthand for kayak
(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 nouns the difference between yak and yuck
is that yak is an ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas and Tibet with dark, long and silky hair a horse like tail and a full, bushy mane while yuck is something disgusting.As verbs the difference between yak and yuck
is that yak is to talk, particularly informally but persistently, such as chatter while yuck is to itch.As an interjection yuck is
Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.yak
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* Bos mutus * Bos grunniens * - wild yak * - domestic yakDerived terms
* yak shaving * yaklessSee also
*Etymology 2
apparently an onomatopoeiaAlternative forms
* yackVerb
(yakk)Usage notes
* This is subject to the typically Australian 'have-a-verb' syntactic construction, as in 'I had a yak last night'. But this does not qualify 'yak' to be nominal.Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----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.