different between ick vs icky

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

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

• ew
• ugh
• yuck

Related terms

• icky

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.

Etymology 3

Noun

ick (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of ich (fish disease)

Anagrams

• CKI

German

Alternative forms

• ik
• icke (disjunctive)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k/

Pronoun

ick (conjunctive)

1. (Berlin) I

Low German

Alternative forms

• ik
• ek, eck

• Ravensbergisch: eck, ek (used besides ick)
• Münsterländisch: -k (enclitic; used besides ick)

Etymology

From Middle Low German ik, from Old Saxon ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *é?h?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k/

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.)

Related terms

• 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

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Adjective

icky (comparative ickier, superlative ickiest)

1. (informal) Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.

2. (informal) Excessively sentimental.
3. (informal) Unwell or upset; in a bad state of mind or health.

Related terms

• ick

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