Meaning

(colloquial, often childish) Disgusting, nauseating..

Example Sentences

“Ew!” she hissed. “I think what you do is ewwy!”

“Ewww,” Lexie said again. “Let’s stop talking about that.” “Good.” Tim smiled. “All right, let’s lie down, so I can watch when it happens.” Tim had already been lying down but had sat up when the conversation got “ewwy,” so he lay down again.

Maya Mae didn’t care about soap. It was stinky, yucky, ewwy, and pee-yewy and she never used it.

Ewwy, gooey, sticky, mushy / That’s what your mean words mean to me / Disgusting, slimy, snotty, clotty / Like a booger, I’ll pick you, blow you, and throw you away

I think the weirdest thing that just happened though, was that they summoned a long dead spirit to help them find Jericho. That’s just...ewwy. I mean don’t they know that children shouldn’t play with dead things?

The alimentary tract, also known as our gastrointestinal tract, involves the thirty feet of tubing from our mouth to anus; the liver, the gall bladder, the pancreas, and 100 trillion bacteria (ewwy).

You say that we’re spooky and ugly and creepy and crawly and icky and ewwy and downright gross.

Diver ran to the trash drop and looked down. “Ewwy,” she said.

Word Forms

• more ewwy
• most ewwy

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When Should You Use Ewwy?

Use ewwy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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