🇬🇧 Yucky meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

"Yucky" means something tastes, smells, or looks so bad that you really don’t want it near your mouth, your nose, or even your eyeballs.

I took one sip of the green mystery smoothie and my tongue yelled, "Yucky! Retreat!"

The spaghetti was fine until my baby brother added ketchup, syrup, and toothpaste to make it extra yucky.

The swamp behind our house smells so yucky that even the flies wear tiny nose plugs.

The smoothie was yucky because my little sister thought onions were a kind of banana.

The science experiment turned yucky when the slime started bubbling and calling me by my full name.

At lunch, Tom lifted the lid and saw green, slimy soup. "Yucky," he said, sniffing. "Yucky," he added. The spoon touched his lips and he made a face: "Yucky! Yucky!" He pushed the bowl away. His little sister tasted a crumb and spat: "Yucky!" They both laughed, wiped their mouths, and threw the bowl in the bin. Crisis over.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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