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ickiness

noun

Etymology

From icky + -ness.

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being icky.

  2. Something that is icky.

    • Then Sara opened up her teapot to remove the tea bag and gasped, “There is an ickiness in here!” and of course Leroy got all excited and peered in at what first seemed to be a small brain.
    • If I could pull your mind away from ickinesses—sorry, I don't really like talking about this stuff. . .
    • I had much more vivid horrors than Lovecraft's nameless ickinesses to write about now.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for ickiness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA