I was wondering how I should spell 'ewww' as in 'ewww ahhh': Bob showed Jill his most impressive set of magic cards.

I hear eww (sometimes spelt as ew) fairly regularly on American sitcoms, usually uttered by a scatterbrained beautiful blonde girl when she sees or hears something disgusting. I don't recall it ever

2021年2月12日 · Maybe 35 years ago I read or heard on public radio (or got from some reasonably credible source) that the term "gay" (as in homosexual) was derived from a similar-sounding Algerian word (something like "gaje") that had gained currency in France (and which strongly resembled the French word for "gay").

2017年2月22日 · +1, especially for blech (which is apparently in the M-W unabridged). I think this answer could be made even more explicitly in-line with the OP's request for "onomotopoeias" with an etymological note that yuck is probably imitative (of vomiting or, …

2011年12月3日 · Grammatically, onomatopoeias are verbs, nouns, or interjections: The cat meowed. It landed with a dull "thud." ...