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yuks | yus |

As a noun yuks

is or yuks can be laughter, amusement.

As an adverb yus is

(lb).

As a letter yus is

.

yuks

English

(wikipedia yuks)

Etymology 1

Noun

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    From plural of onomatopoeic yuk. English onomatopoeias

    Noun

    (-)
  • laughter, amusement
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=July 22, author=Lawrence Bommer, title=Sybil’s Playhouse, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=For instance, the five improv artists in Sybil’s Playhouse nearly broke their funny bones trying to dig yuks from the response to “What’s making you blue this summer?”}}
  • * 2010 , Danielle Corsetto, Girls With Slingshots
    • HAZEL: Please tell me that mask is removable.
    DOCTOR: Oh! Yes, of course – it’s just for yuks , see!

    Anagrams

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    yus

    English

    Etymology 1

    Dialectal form of yes .

    Adverb

    (head)
  • (lb) .
  • * 1892 , from Punch, or The London Charivari :
    • Yus , to live in dirt, I feel is a `orrid degradation; but one thing I'd like to know, is it wus than living ''on'' it?
  • * 1922 , Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, compilers and editors, The Best British Short Stories of 1922 :
    • Wych Street? Yus , of course I knoo Wych Street. Used to go there with some of the boys -- when I was Covent Garden way.

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia yus) (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * jus

    Letter

    (head)