ew

See also: EW and Ew

English

Imitative, ideophonic. Compare oh, ugh.

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.

Eww! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!

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)

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)

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

From a Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego.

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