ew

See also: EW and Ew

English

Alternative forms

eww
euw
ieuw
ehw

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪʊ̯/, /ɪ̃ʉ̃͡u/
Audio (US) (file)

Etymology

Imitative, ideophonic. Compare oh, ugh.

Interjection

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

Expression of disgust or nausea.
Ew! There’s a fly in my soup.

Ew! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:yuck

Translations

expression of disgust or nausea

Arabic: يَع‎ (yaʿ)
Hijazi Arabic: يِع‎ (yiʿ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 惡心 (zh), 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
Dutch: bah (nl)
Esperanto: aĉ
Finnish: hyi (fi), yök (fi), yäk (fi), yh (fi)
French: beurk (fr)
German: igitt (de), pfui (de)
Greek: μπλιάχ (bliách)
Hebrew: איכס‎ (he) (ichs), פוי‎ (he) (fui)
Hungarian: fúj (hu)

Icelandic: oj (is)
Italian: bleah
Japanese: げ (ja) (ge) (also spelled: ゲ (ja) (ge), げっ (ge), ゲッ (ge))
Navajo: ih
Norwegian: æsj (no), fysj
Persian: ایش‎
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)
Swedish: usch (sv), fy (sv), uäk, blä (sv)
Turkish: ıy (tr)

Anagrams

WE, w/e, we

Middle English

Alternative forms

u, iw, iv, eev, hw, ewe

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iu̯/, /jiu̯/

Noun

ew

yew (Taxus baccata)
yew wood

Descendants

English: yew
Scots: yew, ewe

References

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

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