ew

or eww

[ ioo ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

interjection

(used as an exclamation expressing disgust, aversion, or the like):
Ew, I hate mushrooms!

Origin of ew¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Origin of ew¹

from E(esti) W(abariik)

When EW brought up the conversation with Garfield to Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb, the director cut them off.

The ew-inducing Ranjeet is notorious for having taken part in an estimated 400 scenes.

Now, the cycle of “ew” will continue, when Brutsch appears on CNN for an interview with Anderson Cooper this Thursday.

Channing Tatum channeled his inner teenybopper alongside Jimmy Fallon for the latest installment of ‘Ew!’

But riding the “roller coaster,” as Ariel Schulman puts it, of anonymous DIY filmmaker to EW poster boy has been heady.

I should read Pyn, ew, instead of Fyn ew; only we have had pyn already, in l. 1379.

Only a ew days after her visit to Mrs. Jocelyn came a package, a large, flat, nearly square package.

The diphthong ew is a sample of what may be called an unsteady or unstable combination.

In any case, it is very certain that we come across this Patience again in Russian novels with a name ending in ow or ew.

Whe-e-ew, I can't stand this; come and take a walk, Leslie; I want stretching!

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