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icky

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Adjective
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ick=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

ickyadj. 
  •  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.

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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