Definition of "yuck"

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."

2003 December 8, The New Yorker

I yucked and yicked and spit in the dirt .

1994, Linda Shands, A Time to Keep, page 37

Dom was yucking and yelling. He was clumsy and barely got as many with two hands as Mouse did with one.

1997, Walter Mosley, Gone Fishin': An Easy Rawlins Novel, page 79

He was yucking loudly at the plate in front of him.

2015, Alan Pinkett, Utta Drivel Too, page 47

I shall tell the other one which cream to apply first and then the steps in order, but no yucking will I tolerate.

2015, Paulette, Echoes of Color, page 511

We are not interested in yucking anyone's yum or shaming anyone who has fantasies or fetishes about ideas of this reallife violence.

2016, Matthew Ball, Thomas Crofts, Angela Dwyer, Queering Criminology

We collected birds' eggs, gingerly plucking them from nests high in the trees and holding the eggs in our mouths as we used both hands to climb back down; sometimes they'd crack and the bitter taste of the contents would have us yucking for hours.

2016, Margaret Court, Margaret Court: The Autobiography

She thought it was overpoweringly gross and yucked great dribbles over the front of her lace blouse .

1987, Martyn Godfrey, Sandra Scott, It Isn't Easy Being Ms Teeny Wonderful, page 130

And she yucked. She forced herself to eat again. And again she yucked.

2011, Gregory Dark, Susie and the Snow-it-alls, page 138

As he yucked his guts up mere feet from the little passageway, all of John's shame came crumbling down upon him.

2021, Glenn Rolfe, August's Eyes

I can see these pro-lifer's screams of “Stop killing the foetus” turn to “I ain't taking no mother yucking nickker home to my mother yucking house."

2004, Michael Atkinson, Life Is Amazing, page 365

But when I was out there, I yucked up everything.

2009, Joan Hiatt Harlow, Secret of the Night Ponies, page 107

Boy, you sure as hell yucked this up.

2010, Don L. Clark, Magy la Magnifica, page 28

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.

2000 March 13, The New Yorker

And I so miss the laughs we yucked when I used to point out to you the irony of people's names in town .

2006, Joseph George Hayes, A Map of the Harbor Islands, page 299

His buddies yucked and laughed as they motored away.

2006, Dan Bomkamp, Thanks Thunderfoot, page 99

Ori wiped his cheek and yucked again.

2014, Caroline Adderson, Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love

The whole room yucked and tittered.

2018, Sarah Sparrow, A Guide for Murdered Children, page 130

Briggs yucked the mare about, and she stood straight up seven or eight times.

1886, English Dialect Society, Publications - Volume 25, page 171

I took it bad when it were lifted and yucked into a truck and shifted

1945, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 209, page 393

Bey don't leave me bey, f***k that other nigga mjay and let me talk to you (I yucked my hand away and kept on walking)

, M. J. King, My Big Brother's Best Friend, page 127