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ewwy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɪʊ̯.iː/
• (US) audio

Etymology

From ew + -y.

Meanings

1. (childish, colloquial, often) Disgusting, nauseating.
   • Diver ran to the trash drop and looked down. “Ewwy,” she said. 2021, Jason Sanford, Plague Birds, Apex Book Company, →ISBN:
   • Maya Mae didn’t care about soap. It was stinky, yucky, ewwy, and pee-yewy and she never used it. 2017, April Hilland, Don’t Eat the Soap!, FriesenPress, →ISBN:
   • The alimentary tract, also known as our gastrointestinal tract, involves the thirty feet of tubing from our mouth to anus; the liver, the gall bladder, the pancreas, and 100 trillion bacteria (ewwy). 2020, James Kindlund, The Graviton of God: The Celestial Wonders and Statistical Impossibilities of Our Universe, Bodies, and Existence, WestBow Press, →ISBN:
   • I think the weirdest thing that just happened though, was that they summoned a long dead spirit to help them find Jericho. That’s just...ewwy. I mean don’t they know that children shouldn’t play with dead things? 2017, George Jones, Paranoria, TX: The Radio Scripts, Episodes 89 – 99, →ISBN, page 102:
   • “Ewww,” Lexie said again. “Let’s stop talking about that.” “Good.” Tim smiled. “All right, let’s lie down, so I can watch when it happens.” Tim had already been lying down but had sat up when the conversation got “ewwy,” so he lay down again. 2012, Alan E. Todd, Time Slider, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 42:
   • “Ew!” she hissed. “I think what you do is ewwy!” 2010, Kyra Davis, Vows, Vendettas and a Little Black Dress (A Sophie Katz Novel), Mira Books, →ISBN:
   • “So, Eliza, got any boyfriends?” I say, acting like they are ewwy, yucky, gross. “Eww! Yuck! Boys are for losers!” she replies. “I don’t want a boyfriend. All they do is take your money.” 2022, Susie Wright, Sydney’s Passion, Fulton Books, →ISBN:
   • Ewwy, gooey, sticky, mushy / That’s what your mean words mean to me / Disgusting, slimy, snotty, clotty / Like a booger, I’ll pick you, blow you, and throw you away 2017, Jesse L. Mack Jr., Love, Me, Life, Balboa Press, →ISBN:
   • You say that we’re spooky and ugly and creepy and crawly and icky and ewwy and downright gross. 2020, Sophie Corrigan, The Not Bad Animals, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, →ISBN:

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