yuk

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See also: þuk, yuk-, and yük

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

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.

Interjection

yuk

  1. go ahead

Further reading

Lacandon

Noun

yuk

  1. red brocket

Lashi

Pronunciation

Classifier

yuk

  1. classifier for humans

Noun

yuk

  1. person

Verb

yuk

  1. to grow

References

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Marshallese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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

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/,
  • Hyphenation: yuk

Noun

yuk

  1. person; human being

Declension

Declension of yuk (stem: yug- or yug'-)
singular dual plural
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

  • 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
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