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   icky

   /ˈɪki/

   adjective

   • 1. unpleasantly sticky. informal
   • ▪ nasty or unpleasant: informal "the kids were eating something icky"
   • ▪ distastefully sentimental: informal "a romantic subplot that is just plain icky"

   Word Origin 1930s: perhaps related to sick1 or to the child's word ickle.

   Derivatives

   • 1. ickiness noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

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   What does Icky mean in slang?

   • You can also use icky to simply mean "yucky" or "nasty," as when your school cafeteria offers several icky dishes for lunch, like mystery meat and mystery mash. The informal icky is an American invention, from the 1920's slang icky-boo, baby talk for "sick" or "nauseated."

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   What is a synonym for Icky?

   • Synonyms: gooey, disgusting, nasty, yecchy, yucky, more... Visit the English Only Forum. Help WordReference: Ask in the forums yourself. Go to Preferences page and choose from different actions for taps or mouse clicks. icky - WordReference English dictionary, questions, discussion and forums.

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   What does it mean if a dog is Icky?

   • Something that's icky is disgusting and gummy or sticky. When you walk around a busy city all day, you're bound to end up with something icky stuck to the bottom of your shoe. After frolicking through the mud, your dog will be dirty and icky, and a particularly humid summer day can feel icky too.

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   What is the meaning of 'icky' in French?

   • The meaning of 'icky' in French: adj. dégueulasse, débectant (argot), visqueux, collant. Related meanings include 'icis', 'icitap', 'ick', 'icker', 'ickle', 'icky-poo', 'icl', 'icm', 'icmp'.

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   Why is Icky envious of his sisters?

   • Icky is constantly envious of his sisters taking all of the glory for tackling the fox problem on the farm. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of icky?

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   Are Icky ingredients lurking in your favorite personal products?

   • In the past decades we’ve learned a lot about the icky ingredients lurking in our favorite personal products. Despite the pandemic’s impact on all of us, sick and healthy, we’ve actually seen a record-breaking low amount of another icky, highly-contagious respiratory virus—the flu.

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   unpleasant or disgusting: Rory thinks peas are icky. (Definition of icky from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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     unpleasant or disgusting: Rory thinks peas are icky....

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     icky definicja: 1. unpleasant, especially to look at: 2....

   • Icky in Traditional Chinese

     ICKY translate: （尤指視覺上）令人不快的. Learn more in the Cambridge...

   • Icky in Simplified Chinese

     ICKY translate: （尤指视觉上）令人不快的. Learn more in the Cambridge...

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     ICONIC definition: 1. very famous or popular, especially...

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     ICING SUGAR definition: 1. a soft powder made from sugar...

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   The meaning of ICKY is offensive to the senses or sensibilities : distasteful. How to use icky in a sentence.

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   ICKY is an informal adjective that means repulsive, distasteful, or sticky. It can also mean excessively sweet or sentimental. See synonyms, examples, and word history of ICKY.

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   Definitions of 'icky'. 1. If you describe a substance as icky, you mean that it is disgustingly sticky. [mainly US, informal, disapproval] [...] 2. If you describe something as icky, you mean that it is too emotional or sentimental. [mainly US, informal, disapproval] [...]

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   If you describe something as icky, you mean that it is too emotional or sentimental.