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icky

adj
/ˈɪki/

Etymology

1935, American English; from icky-boo (circa 1920): sickly, nauseated; baby talk corruption of sick; from a sentimental term for jazz music.

Definitions

  1. Unpleasantly sticky

    Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.

    • I stepped in something icky and it smells terrible.
    • Crew member Sachin Sharma of India said workers had no problems with being thrust into the icky job of handling the red bags filled with human waste.

  2. Excessively sentimental.

  3. Unwell or upset

    Unwell or upset; in a bad state of mind or health.

    • I'm not going to work today. I just feel icky.

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Derived

ickily, ickiness, icky-poo, sticky-icky

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for icky. 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