英和和英

別の表記

• eww, euw, ieuw, ehw

発音

• IPA: /ˈiː.uː/, /iːˈjuː/, /iːu̯/, /(j)ɪu̯/, /ɪʊ̯/
• 韻: -iːuː, -uː

間投詞

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!

派生語

関連する語

• pew

動詞

ew (third-person singular simple present ews, present participle ewwing, simple past and past participle ewwed)

1. (ambitransitive, colloquial, rare) To express disgust (at someone or something) by saying ew.
   • 2012, Simon Dodd, Death by Muttonbird: A Lord Howe Island Murder Mystery, Sydney, N.S.W.: DBMB Publishing, →ISBN, page 201:

     “Brad went into a seething rage, as you do,” said Jack “and followed Harvey out of the restaurant, down the road and …” / “… Killed him with a muttonbird,” added Matahina / “A brick, then a muttonbird,” corrected Jack, to her horror. / “Ew!” she ewwed.

   • 2014, Babe Walker, “Get Off My Dick”, in Psychos (A White Girl Problems Book; 2), New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 239:

     “Yes. But why did she target me? I don’t understand.” / “I think it’s kind of fun.” Gen smiled, pulling out her own pack of Marlboros and lighting one. / “Ew, you would think it’s fun. Try having a stalker.” / “Don’t ew me right now, Babe. Honestly.”

   • 2022, Meg Elison, “Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley”, in Jonathan Strahan, editor, Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene (Twelve Tomorrows), Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 22:

     Jayden […] showed them a large cache of vintage muscleman magazines. “Look at this. Look how hot.” […] “I’m gonna hang them up all over my room. My mom says it’s OK as long as they’re not showing meat.” / “Ew,” Ava said. / “I don’t ew the shit you like,” Jayden retorted. / “You ew girls all the time,” Ava said dismissively. “And I just meant ew to calling it ‘meat.’”

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

名詞

ew

1. Obsolete spelling of yew.

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Ew”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 356, column 1.

アナグラム

• WE, w/e, we

語源

From 古期英語 īw, ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *īhu.

発音

• IPA: /iu̯/, /jiu̯/

名詞

ew

1. yew (Taxus baccata)
2. yew wood

派生した語

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

参照

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