Definitions
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- n. itch, a prickly feeling
- v. to itch, irritate the skin
Etymologies
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From (northern) Middle English yukun, from Old English gikkan, cognate with Dutch jeuk
Examples
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And all those prostitutes parading their wares, yeuk!
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Loose and missing teeth, soft, bleeding gums, the pus-filled, itching follicles of "the yeuk" that so lavishly decorated His Highness's white skin.
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"His Highness cannot suffer from the yeuk, like a common peasant!"
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Ye see, "continued the expert in camping out on hills," the hay an 'the heather gets doon yer neck an' mak's ye yeuk [itch] an 'fidge a' day.
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Ye'll maybe get a bit dab frae the neb o 'a jockteleg [point of a sheath-knife] that will yeuk [tickle] ye for a day or twa gin ye dinna learn an' that speedily, as Maister Welsh wad say, to keep yer Han's aff my faither's dochter. "
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An 'at first ye mind that, though after a while gin ye dinna yeuk, ye find it michty oninterestin'! "
reesetee commented on the word yeuk
Yueck.
January 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word yeuk
"It was scurvy, and several of the other diseases of malnutrition. I said as much.
'Nonsense!' said Sheridan, outraged. 'His Highness cannot suffer from the yeuk, like a common peasant!'
'He's been eating like one,' I retorted. 'Or rather worse than one.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber (NY: Delacorte Press, 1991), 873
January 3, 2010