ick

See also: -ick

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪk/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪk

Etymology 1

Interjection

ick

  1. An exclamation of disgust
    Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick!
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Back-formation from icky.

Noun

ick (uncountable)

  1. (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?

Adjective

ick

  1. (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.

Etymology 3

Noun

ick (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of ich (fish disease)

Anagrams


German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Low German ick/ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪk/

Pronoun

ick (conjunctive)

  1. (Berlin) I
    Ick liebe dir!
    I love you!

Low German

Alternative forms

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

  1. 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.)
  • mien (possessive: my, mine); mi (dative (also generally used in place of the accusative): me); wi (plural: we)

Middle English

Pronoun

ick

  1. Alternative form of I

North Frisian

Pronoun

ick

  1. Alternative form of ik
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