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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

yuk

  1. alternative form of eok

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
Arabic (Yangi Imlo)
Cyrillic юк
Latin yuk
Afghan Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yǖk (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

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