Word Study
icky
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective icky has 2 senses
- icky(s = adj.all) crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky - very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"
- icky(s = adj.all) gooey - soft and sticky; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
icky, adj.
- very bad; repulsive; unpleasant; distasteful. [WordNet 1.5]
- sticky; as, icky, sticky goo. [WordNet 1.5]
- Overly sentimental; -- of stories or dramas. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
icky, adj. (also ikky) colloq.
1 sweet, sticky, sickly.
2 (as a general term of disapproval) nasty, repulsive.
1 sweet, sticky, sickly.
2 (as a general term of disapproval) nasty, repulsive.
Etymology
20th c.: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
icky
bad, barfy, brackish, bum, cheesy, cloying, crappy, creepy, crummy, dirty, disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, fulsome, gloppy, godawful, goshawful, grim, gunky, hairy, high, horrible, loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, mucky, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, odious, offensive, ordurous, overripe, poisonous, puky, punk, putrid, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, spoiled, sposhy, stinking, stinky, vile, vomity, weevily, wormy, yecchy, yucky
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