ew

See also: EW and Ew

English

Alternative forms

eww, euw, ieuw, ehw

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, ideophonic. Compare oh, ugh.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /(iː)uː/, [ɪ̃(ː)ʉ̃͡u], [ɯ᷈(ː)], [ʏʊ̯(ː)]
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -uː

Interjection

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

Expression of disgust or nausea.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:yuck

Ew! There’s a fly in my soup.

Ew! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!

Derived terms

ewphoria

Related terms

pew

Translations

expression of disgust or nausea

Arabic: يَع (yaʕ)
Gulf Arabic: يع (yaʕ), ويع (wēʕ)

Hijazi Arabic: يِع (yiʕ)
Assamese: ছিঃ (sih)
Breton: ec'h (br)
Catalan: ecs (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 惡心／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, fy, øv
Dutch: bah (nl)
Esperanto: aĉ (eo)
Finnish: hyi (fi), yök (fi), yäk (fi), yh (fi)
French: beurk (fr)
German: igitt (de), pfui (de)
Greek: μπλιάχ (bliách)
Ancient: ψό (psó)
Hebrew: איכס (he) (ikhs), פוי (he) (fui)
Hindi: छी (hi) (chī)
Hungarian: fúj (hu)
Icelandic: oj (is)
Italian: bleah
Japanese: げ (ja) (ge), ゲ (ja) (ge), げっ (ge'), ゲッ (ge')
Lithuanian: fu, pfui
Navajo: ih
Norwegian: æsj (no), fysj
Persian: ایش (fa) (išš), پیف (fa) (pif)
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), буэ́ (ru) (bué)
Serbo-Croatian: fuj (sh), bljak
Spanish: guácala (es), puaj (es), puaf
Swedish: usch (sv), fy (sv), uäk, blä (sv)
Turkish: ıy (tr)
Vietnamese: êu (vi)
Welsh: ych a fi

Anagrams

WE, w/e, we

Middle English

Alternative forms

u, iw, iv, eev, hw, ewe

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iu̯/, /jiu̯/

Noun

ew

yew (Taxus baccata)
yew wood

Descendants

English: yew
Scots: yew, ewe
Yola: yew

References

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

Mokilese

**Mokilese numbers ^(edit)**
	10
	1	2 →	10 →
General: ew Animate: emen Long objects: apas Pieces: ekij Serial counting number: oahd General ordinal: keiow Animate ordinal: keiow Long objects ordinal: keiow Pieces ordinal: keiow

Etymology

e- (“one”) +‎ -w (general numeral classifier)

Numeral

ew

the numeral one

Usage notes

Ew is the general form of the numeral one, used for general counting and to describe the number of inanimate objects that are not considered long or pieces of other nouns.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /æw/

Pronoun

Central Kurdish	ئەو (ew)
Southern Kurdish	ئەۊ (eẅ)

ew (he) (she)

Central Kurdish	ئەوان (ewan)
Southern Kurdish	ئەوان (ewan)

ew (they)

ew (masculine oblique singular wî, feminine oblique singular wê, oblique plural wan)

he, she, it, they

	singular	plural
1st person	ez (æz)	em (æm)
2nd person	tu (tu)	hûn (huːn)
3rd person	ew (æw)	ew (æw)