Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(mainly juv.) an all-purpose excl. of distaste.

1952		W.R. Burnett Little Men, Big World 17: Do I get my name mentioned, yuk, yuk?
1969		Aus. Women’s Wkly 30 Apr. 67/1: ‘That’s a yummy cup of beef tea.’ ‘Yuck’.
1972		M. Rodgers Freaky Friday 130: Yick! Where did you get that?
1972		Time 14 Feb. 45: We have terrible lunches. Yecch!
1976		P. Theroux Family Arsenal 187: Brodie was shaking her head. She said, ‘Yuck!’.
1979		N.Y. Post 23 Jan. 24: Too many people say ‘yuk’ to liver because they have never tasted it cooked well.
1981		G. Johnston Fish Factory 53: Yuk! They’d made a greasy, bloody mess of the cockpit floor.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 127/1: yecch! exclamation of disgust, variant of ‘yuck!’, sometimes combining intimations of vomit.
1989		K. Dunn Geek Love 134: Yuck! I’m leaning on a slimy urinal!
1989		G. Tate ‘The GOP Throws a Mammy-Jammy’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 103: Percy Sledge was the only entertainer of the evening who embarrassed me [...] closing out with ‘God Bless you, Mr. and Mrs. Bush.’ Yeeech.
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 431: yuck (yeck). An exclamation of strong disgust or distaste, also rendered as yuk, yecch, yech, yeck, and even eck.
1996		H. Roth From Bondage 232: Final exams were near at hand, finals in two ed courses (yech).
1999		Guardian 8 Oct. 10: Yuk, we’ve got Baldilocks for geography next.
2000		Indep. on Sun. Rev. 23 Jan. 37: All national cuisines have idiosyncracies that make us think ‘yuk!’.
2006		C.W. Ford Deuce’s Wild 5: Yuck. Change the ring tone.
2012		C. Stella Rough Riders 129: ‘Where are you now?’ ‘The morgue.’ ‘Yuck’.