yucky

adj
/ˈjʌkɪ/UK/ˈjʌki/US

Etymology

From yuck + -y. Compare Old English ġyċċiġ (“putrid”).

  1. derived from ġyċċiġ — “putrid

Definitions

  1. Of something highly offensive

    Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.

    • The food that I ate today was very yucky.
    • "Don't rule out desalination because it is expensive, or recycling because it sounds yucky, or building a dam," Mr Turnbull told Australian media."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for yucky. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA