yuk

See also: þuk, yuk-, and yük

Translingual

Symbol

yuk

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Yuki.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Yuki terms

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jʌk/
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)
  • Homophone: yuck
  • Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

Imitative, similar to the variant yuck.

Interjection

yuk

  1. (onomatopoeia) An exuberant laugh.

Noun

yuk (plural yuks)

  1. (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

yuk (third-person singular simple present yuks, present participle yukking, simple past and past participle yukked)

  1. To laugh exuberantly.
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Interjection

yuk

  1. 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

Achang

Pronunciation

  • (Myanmar) /juk˧/
  • (Lianghe) [ʑu³¹]
  • (Longchuan) [ʑuʔ⁵⁵]
  • (Luxi) [ʑuʔ³¹]
  • (Xiandao) [juʔ⁵⁵]

Classifier

yuk

  1. Classifier for counting people.
    loloeu aiq yuk
    two sons

Biak

Etymology

Borrowed from a truncation of English ukulele, from Hawaiian ʻukulele, from ʻuku (flea, louse) + lele (jumping). Doublet of uk.

Noun

yuk

  1. ukulele

Indonesian

Etymology

Clipping of ayo.

Pronunciation

Interjection

yuk

  1. go ahead, let's go
    Synonyms: ayo, ayuh, ayuk, yok

Further reading

Lacandon

Noun

yuk

  1. red brocket

Marshallese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [e̯okʷ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /jekʷ/
  • Bender phonemes: {yȩkʷ}

Pronoun

yuk

  1. you (singular); thou.

References

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *yäkwe, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos, whence also Latin equus, Old Irish ech. Compare with Tocharian B yakwe.

Noun

yuk

  1. horse

Uzbek

Other scripts
Yangi Imlo
Cyrillic юк
Latin yuk
Perso-Arabic
(Afghanistan)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yük (load, burden).

Noun

yuk (plural yuklar)

  1. cargo, luggage

Derived terms

  • yukxona

Yup'ik

Alternative forms

  • (Nunivak Island, Chevak) cuk
  • (Middle Yukon) suk

Etymology

From Proto-Yupik *yuɣ, from Proto-Eskimo *iŋuɣ. Compare Greenlandic inuk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjuk/, [ˈjuk]
  • Hyphenation: yuk

Noun

yuk

  1. person; human being

Declension

References

  • Osahito Miyaoka (2012) A grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY), De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 41
  • Steven A. Jacobson (2012) “yuk”, in Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary (Volume 1), Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN