Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Something disgusting. · A general insult.
Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
To say "yuck"; to express disgust. · To vomit or gag; · fuck.
Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jakkes (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease" akin to middle Dutch "joke" and modern Dutch "jeuk"”) .
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