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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, ideophonic. Compare oh, ugh.
Pronunciation
Interjection
ew (with as many extra ‘e’s and/or ‘w’s as needed for emphasis)
- Expression of disgust or nausea.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:yuck
Ew! There’s a fly in my soup.
Ew! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
expression of disgust or nausea
- Arabic: يَع (yaʕ)
- Gulf Arabic: يع (yaʕ), ويع (wēʕ)
- Hijazi Arabic: يِع (yiʕ)
- Assamese: ছিঃ (sih)
- Breton: ec'h (br)
- Catalan: ecs (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 惡心／恶心 (zh) (ěxin), (strong, offensive) 呸 (zh) (pēi), 啐 (zh) (cuì), 哎呀 (zh) (āiyā), 哎 (zh) (āi), 唉 (zh) (ài)
- Czech: fuj (cs)
- Danish: uf, fy, øv
- Dutch: bah (nl)
- Esperanto: aĉ (eo)
- Finnish: hyi (fi), yök (fi), yäk (fi), yh (fi)
- French: beurk (fr)
- German: igitt (de), pfui (de)
- Greek: μπλιάχ (bliách)
- Ancient: ψό (psó)
- Hebrew: איכס (he) (ikhs), פוי (he) (fui)
- Hindi: छी (hi) (chī)
- Hungarian: fúj (hu)
- Icelandic: oj (is)
- Italian: bleah
- Japanese: げ (ja) (ge), ゲ (ja) (ge), げっ (ge'), ゲッ (ge')
- Lithuanian: fu, pfui
- Navajo: ih
- Norwegian: æsj (no), fysj
- Persian: ایش (fa) (išš), پیف (fa) (pif)
- Polish: fuj (pl), ble (pl)
- Portuguese: credo (pt), eca (pt), que nojo!
- Russian: фу (ru) (fu), тьфу (ru) (tʹfu), фе (ru) (fe), фи (ru) (fi) (aristocratic), бе (ru) (be), бр-р (ru) (br-r), буэ́ (ru) (bué)
- Serbo-Croatian: fuj (sh), bljak
- Spanish: guácala (es), puaj (es), puaf
- Swedish: usch (sv), fy (sv), uäk, blä (sv)
- Turkish: ıy (tr)
- Vietnamese: êu (vi)
- Welsh: ych a fi
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Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English īw, ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *īhu.
Pronunciation
Noun
ew
- yew (Taxus baccata)
- yew wood
Descendants
References
Mokilese
Etymology
e- (“one”) + -w (general numeral classifier)
Numeral
ew
- the numeral one
Usage notes
Ew is the general form of the numeral one, used for general counting and to describe the number of inanimate objects that are not considered long or pieces of other nouns.
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
Pronoun
| Central Kurdish
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ئەو (ew)
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| Southern Kurdish
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ئەۊ (eẅ)
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ew (he) (she)
| Central Kurdish
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ئەوان (ewan)
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| Southern Kurdish
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ئەوان (ewan)
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ew (they)
ew (masculine oblique singular wî, feminine oblique singular wê, oblique plural wan)
- he, she, it, they
See also
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singular
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plural
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| 1st person
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ez (æz)
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em (æm)
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| 2nd person
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tu (tu)
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hûn (huːn)
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| 3rd person
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ew (æw)
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ew (æw)
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