ew

ew

See also: EW and Ew

English

Alternative forms

• eww, euw, ieuw, ehw

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, ideophonic. Compare oh, ugh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪʊ̯/, [ɪ̃(ː)ʉ̃͡u], [ɯ᷈(ː)], [ʏʊ̯(ː)]

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪʊ̯

Interjection

ew (with as many extra ‘e’s and/or ‘w’s as needed for emphasis)

1. Expression of disgust or nausea.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:yuck

   Ew! There’s a fly in my soup.

   Ew! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!

Related terms

• pew

Translations

expression of disgust or nausea

Arabic: يَع‎ (yaʿ) Gulf Arabic: يع‎ (yaʿ), ويع‎ (wēʿ) Hijazi Arabic: يِع‎ (yiʿ) Catalan: ecs (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 惡心／恶心 (zh) (ěxin), (strong, offensive) 呸 (zh) (pēi), 啐 (zh) (cuì), 哎呀 (zh) (āiyā), 哎 (zh) (āi), 唉 (zh) (ài) Czech: fuj (cs) Danish: uf, fy, øv Dutch: bah (nl) Esperanto: aĉ (eo) Finnish: hyi (fi), yök (fi), yäk (fi), yh (fi) French: beurk (fr) German: igitt (de), pfui (de) Greek: μπλιάχ (bliách) Ancient: ψό (psó) Hebrew: איכס‎ (he) (ikhs), פוי‎ (he) (fui) Hindi: छी (hi) (chī) Hungarian: fúj (hu) Icelandic: oj (is) Italian: bleah Japanese: げ (ja) (ge), ゲ (ja) (ge), げっ (ge'), ゲッ (ge') Lithuanian: fu, pfui Navajo: ih Norwegian: æsj (no), fysj Persian: ایش‎ (fa) Polish: fuj (pl), ble (pl) Portuguese: credo (pt), eca (pt), que nojo! Russian: фу (ru) (fu), тьфу (ru) (tʹfu), фе (ru) (fe), фи (ru) (fi) (aristocratic), бе (ru) (be), бр-р (ru) (br-r) Serbo-Croatian: fuj (sh), bljak Spanish: guácala (es), puaj (es), puaf Swedish: usch (sv), fy (sv), uäk, blä (sv) Turkish: ıy (tr)

Anagrams

• WE, w/e, we

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• u, iw, iv, eev, hw, ewe

Etymology

From Old English īw, ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *īhu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iu̯/, /jiu̯/

Noun

ew

1. yew (Taxus baccata)
2. yew wood

Descendants

• English: yew
• Scots: yew, ewe
• Yola: yew

References

• “eu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-10.

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Northern Kurdish

Pronoun

ew (masculine oblique singular wî, feminine oblique singular wê, oblique plural wan)

1. he, she, it, they