a. Sc. and north. dial. [f. YUKE + -Y1.] Itchy; itching with curiosity.

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1719.  Ramsay, 3rd Answ. to Hamilton, xv. We, like nags whase necks are yucky, Ha’e us’d our teeth. Ibid. (1722), Three Bonnets, III. 46. While haste his youky mind expresses.

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c. 1750.  J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), Fratres in Malo. Scratching his Yuky arm.

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1789.  D. Davidson, Seasons, 46. Unto thy smooth’ning tongue they fainly turn Their yeuky rumps.

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1867.  Ramsay, Remin. (ed. 15), 86. I’m unco yuckie to hear a blaud o’ your gab.

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  Hence Yukiness.

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1853.  G. Johnston, Nat. Hist. E. Bord., I. 74. If the hairs get into the neck, a youkiness (itch) is the … consequence.

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