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ickle

noun

Etymology

From Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English *ġicol, ġiċel (“icicle, ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *jekul, *jikil, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), diminutive of *jekô (“lump of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yeg-. Cognate with Low German Jäkel (“icicle”), Danish egel (“icicle”), Norwegian Bokmål jøkel (“glacier, icesheet”), Norwegian Nynorsk jøkul, jøkle (“glacier, icicle”), Faroese jøkul (“glacier”), Icelandic jökull (“glacier”), Swedish jökel (“glacier”) and probably Albanian akull (“ice”) (Gheg okull). Doublet of jokul.

  1. derived from *h₁yeg-✻
  2. inherited from *jekulaz✻ — “piece of ice”
  3. inherited from *jekul✻
  4. inherited from *ġicol✻
  5. inherited from ikil

Definitions

  1. An icicle.

  2. Little.

    • Izzum's ickle heart a-beatin' so floppity! Um's own mumsy make ums all right, um's p'eshus Flopit!
    • Wasums and didums, then? Was it a ickle birdie, then?
    • Did she try to hit her ickle bruzzer on his nosie-posie wiz a mug?

The neighborhood

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