Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to yuck
Participle: yucked
Gerund: yucking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | yuck |
| you | yuck |
| he;she;it | yucks |
| we | yuck |
| you | yuck |
| they | yuck |
Perfect
| I | have yucked |
| you | have yucked |
| he;she;it | has yucked |
| we | have yucked |
| you | have yucked |
| they | have yucked |
Past
| I | yucked |
| you | yucked |
| he;she;it | yucked |
| we | yucked |
| you | yucked |
| they | yucked |
Pluperfect
| I | had yucked |
| you | had yucked |
| he;she;it | had yucked |
| we | had yucked |
| you | had yucked |
| they | had yucked |
Future
| I | will yuck |
| you | will yuck |
| he;she;it | will yuck |
| we | will yuck |
| you | will yuck |
| they | will yuck |
Future Perfect
| I | will have yucked |
| you | will have yucked |
| he;she;it | will have yucked |
| we | will have yucked |
| you | will have yucked |
| they | will have yucked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | yuck |
| you | yuck |
| he;she;it | yuck |
| we | yuck |
| you | yuck |
| they | yuck |
Perfect
| I | have yucked |
| you | have yucked |
| he;she;it | have yucked |
| we | have yucked |
| you | have yucked |
| they | have yucked |
Imperfect
| I | yucked |
| you | yucked |
| he;she;it | yucked |
| we | yucked |
| you | yucked |
| they | yucked |
Pluperfect
| I | had yucked |
| you | had yucked |
| he;she;it | had yucked |
| we | had yucked |
| you | had yucked |
| they | had yucked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would yuck |
| you | would yuck |
| he;she;it | would yuck |
| we | would yuck |
| you | would yuck |
| they | would yuck |
Perfect
| I | would have yucked |
| you | would have yucked |
| he;she;it | would have yucked |
| we | would have yucked |
| you | would have yucked |
| they | would have yucked |
Imperative
| you | yuck |
| we | Let's yuck |
| you | yuck |
Verbs conjugated like 'yuck'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'yuck'
buck,
cuck,
duck,
fuck,
huck,
luck,
muck,
puck,
ruck,
suck,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. exclamation of disgust, 1966, origin perhaps echoic (cf. Newfoundland slang yuck "to vomit," 1963).
2. Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jakkes (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease" akin to middle Dutch "joke" and modern Dutch "jeuk"”) .
Sample Sentences
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I yucked and yicked and spit in the dirt . [1994, Linda Shands, A Time to Keep, page 37:]
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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:]
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He was yucking loudly at the plate in front of him. [2015, Alan Pinkett, Utta Drivel Too, page 47:]
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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And she yucked. She forced herself to eat again. And again she yucked. [2011, Gregory Dark, Susie and the Snow-it-alls, page 138:]
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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:]
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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:]
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But when I was out there, I yucked up everything. [2009, Joan Hiatt Harlow, Secret of the Night Ponies, page 107:]
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Boy, you sure as hell yucked this up. [2010, Don L. Clark, Magy la Magnifica, page 28:]