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- Dictionaryyucky/ˈjʌki/
adjective
- 1. messy or disgusting: informal "yucky green-grey slushy cabbage"
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3 days ago · When we move from “Yuck” to “Yucky,” and thereafter to “X is yucky,” we are poised to draw others’ attention and attend ourselves to features of X relevant to our yuck-reactions; and our own ‘yuck’ reactions becomes ripe for intersubjective give-and-take.” (Bar-On and Chrisman 2009, 25)
5 days ago · Describing something as unpleasant or disgusting, ‘yucky’ is used to enhance descriptions of taste, touch, or general distaste. Yonder Being ‘yonder’ involves something being at some distance in the direction indicated; over there.
4 days ago · Obesity was traditionally defined as an increase in body weight that was greater than 20 percent of an individual’s ideal body weight—the weight associated with the lowest risk of death, as determined by certain factors, such as age, height, and gender.
1 day ago · Every day, parents make choices and act in deliberate ways to help shape their children into people with character, respect, a sense of responsibility, motivation, and skills to help them be both successful as kids and as adults. Leading relates to this preparation.
1 day ago · Jevning et al. (1992): "We define meditation... as a stylized mental technique... repetitively practiced for the purpose of attaining a subjective experience that is frequently described as very restful, silent, and of heightened alertness, often characterized as blissful"
5 days ago · atheism. social movement. secularism, a worldview or political principle that separates religion from other realms of human existence, often putting greater emphasis on nonreligious aspects of human life or, more specifically, separating religion from the political realm.
4 days ago · Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises due to the structure of arguments alone, independent of their topic and content.
