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"etymology_text": "From eww + -y.",
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"ref": "2010, Kyra Davis, Vows, Vendettas and a Little Black Dress (A Sophie Katz Novel), Mira Books",
"text": "“Ew!” she hissed. “I think what you do is ewwy!”",
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"ref": "2012, Alan E. Todd, Time Slider, Xlibris, page 42",
"text": "“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.",
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{
"ref": "2017, April Hilland, Don’t Eat the Soap!, FriesenPress",
"text": "Maya Mae didn’t care about soap. It was stinky, yucky, ewwy, and pee-yewy and she never used it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Jesse L. Mack Jr., Love, Me, Life, Balboa Press",
"text": "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",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, George Jones, Paranoria, TX: The Radio Scripts, Episodes 89 – 99, page 102",
"text": "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?",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2020, James Kindlund, The Graviton of God: The Celestial Wonders and Statistical Impossibilities of Our Universe, Bodies, and Existence, WestBow Press",
"text": "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).",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2020, Sophie Corrigan, The Not Bad Animals, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books",
"text": "You say that we’re spooky and ugly and creepy and crawly and icky and ewwy and downright gross.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Jason Sanford, Plague Birds, Apex Book Company",
"text": "Diver ran to the trash drop and looked down. “Ewwy,” she said.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Susie Wright, Sydney’s Passion, Fulton Books",
"text": "“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.”",
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"Disgusting, nauseating."
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"(colloquial, often childish) Disgusting, nauseating."
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"ref": "2010, Kyra Davis, Vows, Vendettas and a Little Black Dress (A Sophie Katz Novel), Mira Books",
"text": "“Ew!” she hissed. “I think what you do is ewwy!”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Alan E. Todd, Time Slider, Xlibris, page 42",
"text": "“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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, April Hilland, Don’t Eat the Soap!, FriesenPress",
"text": "Maya Mae didn’t care about soap. It was stinky, yucky, ewwy, and pee-yewy and she never used it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Jesse L. Mack Jr., Love, Me, Life, Balboa Press",
"text": "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",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, George Jones, Paranoria, TX: The Radio Scripts, Episodes 89 – 99, page 102",
"text": "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?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020, James Kindlund, The Graviton of God: The Celestial Wonders and Statistical Impossibilities of Our Universe, Bodies, and Existence, WestBow Press",
"text": "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).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Sophie Corrigan, The Not Bad Animals, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books",
"text": "You say that we’re spooky and ugly and creepy and crawly and icky and ewwy and downright gross.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Jason Sanford, Plague Birds, Apex Book Company",
"text": "Diver ran to the trash drop and looked down. “Ewwy,” she said.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Susie Wright, Sydney’s Passion, Fulton Books",
"text": "“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.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Disgusting, nauseating."
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],
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"(colloquial, often childish) Disgusting, nauseating."
],
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