ew

interjection

1. 1

   Expression of disgust or nausea.

   Ew! There’s a fly in my soup.

   Ew! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!

verb

1. 1

   rareTo express disgust (at someone or something) by saying ew.

   “Brad went into a seething rage, as you do,” said Jack “and followed Harvey out of the restaurant, down the road and …” / “… Killed him with a muttonbird,” added Matahina / “A brick, then a muttonbird,” corrected Jack, to her horror. / “Ew!” she ewwed.

   “Yes. But why did she target me? I don’t understand.” / “I think it’s kind of fun.” Gen smiled, pulling out her own pack of Marlboros and lighting one. / “Ew, you would think it’s fun. Try having a stalker.” / “Don’t ew me right now, Babe. Honestly.”

   Jayden […] showed them a large cache of vintage muscleman magazines. “Look at this. Look how hot.” […] “I’m gonna hang them up all over my room. My mom says it’s OK as long as they’re not showing meat.” / “Ew,” Ava said. / “I don’t ew the shit you like,” Jayden retorted. / “You ew girls all the time,” Ava said dismissively. “And I just meant ew to calling it ‘meat.’”

noun

1. 1

   Variant of yewobsoleteObsolete spelling of yew.

Forms

past tense

ewwed

past participle

ewwed

present participle

ewwing

third person singular

ews