yuk

• IPA^(key): /jʌk/

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• Homophone: yuck
• Rhymes: -ʌk

yuk

1. (onomatopoeia) An exuberant laugh.

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.

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

1. To laugh exuberantly.

• yuk it up

• yuck
• hyuk

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.

• kyu

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

yuk

1. ukulele

Clipping of ayo.

yuk

1. go ahead

• “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.

yuk

1. red brocket

• IPA^(key): /juk/, [jok]

yuk

1. classifier for humans

yuk

1. person

yuk

1. to grow

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

• eok
• yok

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

yuk

1. you (singular); thou.

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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

yuk

1. horse

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

yuk (plural yuklar)

1. cargo, luggage

• yukxona

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

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

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

yuk

1. person; human being

• 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