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Mar 29, 2012 08:17
12 yrs ago
English term

yuck

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It was a depressing place where the dirt filled the air and coated everything a dull and dusty grayish yuck. Thanks to horrible side effects like black-lung disease, the life expectancy there averaged barely more than forty years, which was not much of a future for the village's lovely children. Our task, and the town's dream, was to clear one of the mountains of coal-mining debris and build a playground in the clean air above the polluted muck. Using shovels and picks, we worked till our muscles ached with exhaustion, but the villagers offered us so much pie and pastry that I gained eight pounds in the few weeks I was there.
Responses
4 +5 filth or grime
4 +8 something disgusting
4 unpleasant and disgusting coating
4 Grime
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+5
3 mins
Selected

filth or grime

the dirt makes everything filthy or grimy

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Note added at 5 mins (2012-03-29 08:22:57 GMT)
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"Yuck" can also be used as an expression of disgust at something unpleasant, but that's not the case here.
Peer comment(s):
agree Vaddy Peters : +1
3 mins
thank you Vaddy
agree Colin Rowe : Good options
49 mins
thank you Colin
agree Yvonne Gallagher
51 mins
thank you
agree Lara Barnett
1 hr
thank you Lara
agree eski : Grime. eski :))
10 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thank you!"
+8
2 mins

something disgusting

Slang for something disgusting.
Peer comment(s):
agree B D Finch
5 mins
Cheers and thanks, BD
agree kmtext
21 mins
Thanks very much, kmtext.
agree Carol Gullidge : yes, very informal
29 mins
Thanks, Carol. When we were little, we said this about food we didn't like.
agree Jack Doughty
37 mins
Cheers and thanks, Jack.
agree Mark Nathan : not sure about "slang", but definitely a non-technical register!// OK - do they give the adjectival form? - "yucky"
1 hr
Thanks, Mark. Yes, they do (as well as yuckier and yuckiest): repugnant, distasteful; also : unpleasant, disagreeable
agree Lara Barnett
1 hr
Thanks very much, Lara.
agree Sandra & Kenneth Grossman
4 hrs
Thanks very much, Sangro.
agree Edith Kelly
5 hrs
Thanks very much, Edith.
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3 mins

unpleasant and disgusting coating

I think it is something like that.
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10 hrs

Grime

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Note added at 10 hrs (2012-03-29 18:23:18 GMT)
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eski :))
Peer comment(s):
neutral Catharine Cellier-Smart : and the difference with my answer is ... ?
28 mins
Hi Cathy, I like your answer, see above-I just wanted to offer a single suggestion. eski :))
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