yucketyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

yuckety (comparative more yuckety, superlative most yuckety)

1. (colloquial) Yucky.
   • 1947 June 5, E[llis] B[rownell] Radcliffe, “Show Mirror: Reverse Switch On Cinderella Formula Offered Again In 'Love And Learn' At Palace”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 107th year, number 57, Cincinnati, Oh., pages 5⁠—⁠C, column 2:

     There follows a farcical motor chase to prevent the gal’s elopment with the other man and a crashing climax ushering in a yuckety hospital scene fadeout.

   • 1972 July 20, Ray Streib, “‘Hold It’”, in Noblesville Daily Ledger, 85th year, number 171, Noblesville, Ind., page 12, column 1:

     Lots of people are already getting back from vacation and there are lots of yuckety pictures coming back from the processing plant. […] Well, if it’s not too late for you to benefit, here’s what I would recommend not only for the beginner but for the advanced amateur. First of all, make certain your camera is in operating condition.

   • 1979 August 13, Russ Metz, “You can count on good friends . . . like this when the camel chips are down”, in Grayson County News-Gazette, volume 3, number 64, Leitchfield, Ky., →OCLC, page 2, column 1:

     [H]e voted to raise the price of Pyfinkian crude to $23.50 a barrell—or more than 10 times what he sold it for a scant six years ago. / “Believe me, it hurt me more than it will hurt you,” he said, suppressing a sob. “But it was the only way we could stop you from buying all that yuckety oil from us.” / “You don’t like oil?” I asked, surprised. / “By the beard of the prophet, all members of OPEC loathe oil,” he said. “Black, dirty, messy, smelly stuff. […]”

   • 1983 September 6, Doris Herzig, “The joys of making changes”, in Newsday, volume 44, number 4, Melville, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., →ISSN, part III (At Home), page 3, columns 1–2:

     Again, the small, aluminum-framed, drafty windows were the focus of discontent in the bedroom. They were uncovered, for the first time since 1972, when the Wedgwood-blue drapery was taken down to be sent to the cleaner. And suddenly the room was enriched by scenic views of treetop foliage. […] The drapery was down for good and the small “yuckety” windows were doomed. “I said, look at the view, why cover it up,” Mrs. Spring recalled.

   • 2011 May, Kirsten Lobe, Paris, Baby! An American Girl’s Real-Life Adventures Having a Baby in the City of Lights, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 322:

     Teamed with the added delight of having to give Oscar sponge baths since the shower was inexplicably terror zone for him. Not to mention, the yuckety bathroom was far too tiny a space to contain him while I sped through a shower, so I had to race through shampoo, shave, and suds at lightning speed while I could hear him putter around the flat doing a host of possibly dangerous activities.