Meaning & use
Icky
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Unpleasant, sticky, or disgusting; used informally to describe something distasteful.
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The kids refused to touch the icky mud puddle.
That was an icky thing to say about your coworker.
A note on using this word
Icky is an informal, largely American word first recorded in the early 20th century, likely a playful alteration of "sticky."
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