ick

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An exclamation of disgust.

   • Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick!
   • Some foot fetishists look for a woman to stomp on them while wearing exotic shoes, while others just want to lick a woman’s toes. (Ick. Can you say, bacteria festival?)
   • An aside for those who think “ick” about goat milk: If there are no billy goats around to arouse those sex hormones, goat milk does not taste “goat-y.
2. 2

   Something distasteful or physically unpleasant to touch.

   • Like it wasn't bad enough that I was soaked to the bone, now I had to lug an ick covered designer original across a puddle filled runway.
   • The UN, for its part, has suggested eating insects as a way of feeding those extra mouths, which may put the frankenmeat ick factor in perspective.
   • Did you get ick all over my things? Should I walk myself through a car wash on the way home?
3. 3

   A feeling of revulsion.

   • to have the ick
   • And I was nodding, "Uh-huh," trying not to have an ick attack, worrying, Is my face giving something away?
   • I wish none of this bothered me, but I feel this ick about Burnham and it isn't going away.
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   1. 4

      Anything moaned about

      Anything moaned about; a gripe.

      • How can you stand such an ick ?
      • Of course, the idea of drinking blood is a total ick right now, but I suppose once you—
      • For the umpteenth time that day one of my fellow men regarded me with scorn. “You're so icky. Such an ick.”
   2. 5

      Icky

      Icky; distasteful or unpleasant.

      • 'It's a bit ick, to be honest, but Rochelle thought it would be funny. Last year we did dragon's diarrhoea, with Tia Maria and chocolate Angel Delight, but nobody would touch it.'
      • He thought she would be an embarrassment. That kind of made me feel a bit ick.
      • There's nothing “ick” about him, but I'm not sure how to say that without sounding like I'm reciting lines from that terrible bodice ripper I took on Theo's practice date.
   3. 6

      Alternative form of ich (“fish disease”).

   4. 7

      Initialism of inhibitor cystine knot.

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