yuk
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Interjection
[edit]yuk
- (onomatopoeia) An exuberant laugh.
Noun
[edit]yuk (plural yuks)
- (slang) Something, such as a joke, that causes such a laugh.
- 1992, Alan S. Blinder, Business Week, numbers 3268-3272:
- The latest yuk from Congress is called the balanced-budget amendment. It could wind up making slumps deeper and recoveries more difficult — and that's no joke.
Verb
[edit]yuk (third-person singular simple present yuks, present participle yukking, simple past and past participle yukked)
- To laugh exuberantly.
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Interjection
[edit]yuk
- Alternative spelling of yuck (disgust)
- 1988 May 7, Nancy M. Gill, “I Don't Always Agree, But I Appreciate GCN”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
- Yuk! Egg on my face! With my usual wait 'til it's history GCN reading habits, I opened my April Fools issue and began to read the election year news; it did not occur to this avid reader that anything was being spoofed until the second paragraph.
Anagrams
[edit]Biak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from a truncation of English ukulele, from Hawaiian ʻukulele, from ʻuku (“flea, louse”) + lele (“jumping”). Doublet of uk.
Noun
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Indonesian
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[edit]Interjection
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Further reading
[edit]- “yuk” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Lacandon
[edit]Noun
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Lashi
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Classifier
[edit]yuk
- classifier for humans
Noun
[edit]yuk
Verb
[edit]yuk
- to grow
References
[edit]- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Marshallese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
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References
[edit]Tocharian A
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Tocharian *yäkwe, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos, whence also Latin equus, Old Irish ech. Compare with Tocharian B yakwe.
Noun
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Uzbek
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Cyrillic | юк |
Latin | yuk |
Perso-Arabic |
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *yük (“load, burden”).
Noun
[edit]yuk (plural yuklar)
Derived terms
[edit]Yup'ik
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Yupik *yuɣ, from Proto-Eskimo *iŋuɣ. Compare Greenlandic inuk.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
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Declension
[edit]Declension of yuk (stem: yug- or yug'-)
singular | dual | plural | |
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absolutive | yuk | yuuk, yug'ek | yuut, yug'et |
relative | yuum, yug'em | yuuk, yug'ek | yuut, yug'et |
locative | yugmi | yuugni, yug'egni | yugni |
allative | yugmun | yuugnun, yug'egnun | yugnun |
ablative | yugmek | yuugnek, yug'egnek | yugnek |
perlative | yugkun | yuugnegun, yug'egnegun | yuutgun, yug'etgun |
equative | yugtun | yuugtun, yug'egtun | yugcetun |
References
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