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Narrator: Today's word is "Yucky" — adjective, pronounced /ˈjʌki/, with the stress on "yuck".
Narrator: Yucky means unpleasant or disgusting, especially to taste or touch.
Narrator: In plain English, yucky means gross.
Narrator: It comes from yuck plus -y.
Narrator: A common collocation is "yucky medicine", which describes a nasty-tasting dose.
Narrator: It differs from "horrible", because yucky is childish and playful.
Narrator: In a second sense, "feel yucky" means feel unwell.
Narrator: Parenting, food and everyday speech use the word.
Narrator: So remember: yucky is the opposite of yummy.
Speaker A: Why won't Lily eat her greens?
Speaker B: She says they're YUCKY! Yuck plus -y.
Speaker A: Even peas?
Speaker B: Especially peas.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "This medicine tastes yucky", home. "My hands are yucky", mess. "I feel yucky today", illness.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Yucky is informal, so use unpleasant in formal writing.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Gross is its cousin, icky its twin, and nasty an alternative — yet yucky keeps its playful charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "yucky" in AI prompts — useful for parenting apps and children's books.
Speaker A: How for parenting?
Speaker B: Fussy eating.
Prompt: Suggest ways to help a child who says vegetables are yucky.
Speaker A: And books?
Speaker B: Humour.
Prompt: Write a picture-book line about a monster who thinks cake is yucky.
Speaker A: Could it help tone?
Speaker B: Yes, for formality.
Prompt: Replace yucky with suitable adult words in this review.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Health.
Prompt: Write a child-friendly explanation of why medicine sometimes tastes yucky.
Yucky — meaning in Arabic & definition More Y courses GL Dictionary