yuck

Etymology 1

Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jak (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s.

intj

1. Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
   Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!

noun

1. (uncountable) Something disgusting.
   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." 8 Dec 2003, The New Yorker

verb

1. To say "yuck"; to express disgust.
   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
2. To vomit or gag;
   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
3. (euphemistic) fuck.
   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

Etymology 2

Imitative

noun

1. The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh.
   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. 13 March 2000, The New Yorker

verb

1. (often followed by "up") To laugh or joke.
   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

Etymology 3

verb

1. To yank or grab.
   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) (Can we date this quote?), M. J. King, My Big Brother's Best Friend, page 127