different between ick vs irk
ick
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
Interjection
ick
- 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)
- (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.
Etymology 3
Noun
ick (uncountable)
- 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)
- (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
- 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
Related terms
- mien (possessive: my, mine); mi (dative (also generally used in place of the accusative): me); wi (plural: we)
Middle English
Pronoun
ick
- Alternative form of I
North Frisian
Pronoun
ick
- Alternative form of ik
ick From the web:
- what ick means
- what icky means
- what icks
- what ticks carry lyme disease
- what tick causes lyme disease
- what ticks look like
- what tickles your fancy
- what tick speed should i use
irk
English
Etymology
From Middle English irken (“to tire, grow weary”), from Old Norse yrkja (“to work”), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijan? (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer?- (“to work”). Cognate with Icelandic yrkja (“to compose”), Swedish yrka (“to urge, argue”), Old English wyrcan, wyr?ean (“to work”). More at work.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k/
- Rhymes: -??(r)k
Verb
irk (third-person singular simple present irks, present participle irking, simple past and past participle irked)
- (transitive) to irritate; annoy; bother
- It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:annoy
Derived terms
- irksome
- irky
Translations
Anagrams
- IKR, Kri, ikr, kir, rik
Manx
Noun
irk
- plural of ark
irk From the web:
- what irk mean
- what irks me the most
- what is the stranger about hester being on the scaffold
- what is the stranger and what does he promise
- what irk mean in texting
- what is a child
- what does irk mean
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