| 单词 | icky |
| 释义 | icky (once / 62869 pages) adj 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 with be dirty and icky, and a particularly humid summer day can feel icky too. 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." WORD FAMILYicky: ickily USAGE EXAMPLESMaybe your favorite college team is in an icky spot like the Badgers. Wall Street Journal(Nov 28, 2016) Combined with Hutchison’s icky description of herself as a “ballot babe” in party robocalls this summer, this sets a poor example. Seattle Times(Oct 10, 2016) We struggle with our icky body stuff and then strangely, we need to see what’s on that Q-tip. Salon(Sep 29, 2016) 1adj soft and sticky Syn gooey adhesive tending to adhere 2adj very bad Syn crappy, lousy, rotten, stinking, stinky bad having undesirable or negative qualities |
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