ick
See also: -ick
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪk/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology 1
Interjection
ick
- An exclamation of disgust
- Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick!
Related terms
Etymology 2
Back-formation from icky.
Noun
ick (uncountable)
- (informal) Something distasteful or physically unpleasant to touch.
- 2015, Chris Lynch, Killing Time in Crystal City (page 182)
- Did you get ick all over my things? Should I walk myself through a car wash on the way home?
- 2015, Chris Lynch, Killing Time in Crystal City (page 182)
Adjective
ick
- (informal) icky; distasteful or unpleasant.
- 2012, Sue Moorcroft, Dream a Little Dream
- '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.'
- 2015, Candy J Starr, Bad Boy Rock Star: The Complete Story
- He thought she would be an embarrassment. That kind of made me feel a bit ick.
- 2012, Sue Moorcroft, Dream a Little Dream
Etymology 3
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Low German ick/ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪk/
Low German
Etymology
From Middle Low German ik, from Old Saxon ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪk/
Pronoun
ick
- I (first person singular pronoun)
- ick schreev di en Breef
- I wrote you a letter
- Ick keem, ick seeg, ick wunn
- I came, I saw, I conquered. (veni, vidi, vici, attributed to Julius Caesar.)
- ick schreev di en Breef
Middle English
North Frisian
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