‘I worked a day job back then and had to go in the evening, yech!’
‘but that just doesn't carry enough entertainment value to warrant the parade of yech that followed.’
‘If you're a man, it's track and field and swimming, but gymnastics is kind of a ‘yecch’ as far as the male of the species is concerned.’
‘Shutup woman before another one comes along, yech!’
‘If one can call some of this stuff music… yech… Who in their right mind calls themselves ‘Korn’?’
‘Reviewing my list of ickisms - yuck, yecch, bleah, ew and ick - the linguist observes, ‘Negative words having to do with disgust seem to be embodied in the experience of expelling unwanted, possibly poisonous, materials from the mouth.’’