ick
Appearance
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ick
- An exclamation of disgust
- Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick!
- 2014, Vicki Robin, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: Lessons from a 10-Mile Diet:
- An aside for those who think “ick” about goat milk: If there are no billy goats around to arouse those sex hormones, goat milk does not taste “goat-y.
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Back-formation from icky.
Noun
[edit]ick (plural not attested)
- (informal, uncountable) Something distasteful or physically unpleasant to touch.
- 2011, J. Morgan, Southern Werewolf Chronicles Book Two: Were the Moon Don't Shine:
- Like it wasn't bad enough that I was soaked to the bone, now I had to lug an ick covered designer original across a puddle filled runway.
- 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?
- (informal) A feeling of revulsion.
- to have the ick
- 1999 March 30, judy wieder, “Steve Kmetko's true hollywood story”, in The Advocate, page 36:
- And I was nodding, "Uh-huh," trying not to have an ick attack, worrying, Is my face giving something away?
- 2017, Caragh M. O'Brien, The Keep of Ages, page 36:
- I wish none of this bothered me, but I feel this ick about Burnham and it isn't going away.
- 2018, NJ Damschroder, Manifest Destiny:
- She'd woken up today with a general ick about doing this job, but every time she considered canceling and giving Hailey her money back, she couldn't do it.
- 2022, Anna Williamson, Where is the Love?: The Honest Guide to Dating and Relationships:
- And as sad as that can be, we can't fake our feelings – if you've got the ick, you've got the ick.
- 2024 March 12, J. Edward Moreno, quoting Kathryn D. Coduto, “Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- “People use dating apps, but I don’t know anyone who pays for it,” Ms. Wang said. In fact, she said that she would consider it an “ick” if she learned somebody was paying for a subscription.
- (slang) Anything moaned about; a gripe.
- 1963, Thomas A. Erhard, The Electronovac Gasser: A Farce in Three Acts, page 45:
- How can you stand such an ick ?
- 2009, Mary-Janice Davidson, Nina Bangs, Janelle Denison, Surf's Up:
- Of course, the idea of drinking blood is a total ick right now, but I suppose once you—
- 2012, Doris Piserchia, The Dimensioneers:
- For the umpteenth time that day one of my fellow men regarded me with scorn. “You're so icky. Such an ick.”
- 2013, Tara Taylor Quinn, It Happened on Maple Street:
- I keep thinking back to last Valentine's Day—I was such an ick—and you sent me that card.
- 2022, Jamila Coleman, Surviving Seventeen… And The Years Leading Up To It, page 159:
- The thought of him and his obsessive begging for sex gave me a predatory vibe and was a total ick.
Adjective
[edit]ick
- (informal) icky; distasteful or unpleasant.
- 2012, Sue Moorcroft, Dream a Little Dream:
- 'It's a bit ick, to be honest, but Rochelle thought it would be funny. Last year we did dragon's diarrhoea, with Tia Maria and chocolate Angel Delight, but nobody would touch it.'
- 2015, Candy J Starr, Bad Boy Rock Star: The Complete Story:
- He thought she would be an embarrassment. That kind of made me feel a bit ick.
- 2021, Jacqueline Firkins, How Not to Fall in Love, page 201:
- There's nothing “ick” about him, but I'm not sure how to say that without sounding like I'm reciting lines from that terrible bodice ripper I took on Theo's practice date.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]ick (uncountable)
- Alternative form of ich (“fish disease”)
Anagrams
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Pronoun
[edit]ick
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Low German ick/ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Doublet of ich.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ick (conjunctive)
- (regional, Berlin) I
- Ick liebe dir!
- I love you!
- Weeß ick nich. Keene Ahnung!
- I don’t know. Not a clue!
Usage notes
[edit]- Also used by Johann Christian Trömer alias Jean Chrêtien Toucement, who wrote in a mixture of French and German, like how a French would (mis-)pronounce German.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Encyclopädie der deutschen Nationalliteratur oder biographisch-kritisches Lexicon der deutschen Dichter und Prosaisten seit den frühesten Zeiten; nebst Proben aus ihren Werken. Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Dr. O. L. B. Wolff. Siebenter Band. Schmauss bis Z, 1842, p. 395, s.v. „Johann Christian Trömer“: „schrieb Tr. [= Trömmer] in einem Mischmasch von französisch und deutsch, wie es ungefähr ein Franzose sprechen würde“
Low German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German ik, from Old Saxon ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]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
Declension
[edit]In the dialect of Fritz Reuter:[1]
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||||
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Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||
Singular | Nominative | ick | du | hei | sei | dat ('t) |
Accusative | mi | di | em | ehr | dat | |
Plural | Nominative | wi | ji | sei | ||
Accusative | uns | jug (ju) |
Related terms
[edit]Possessive pronouns in the dialect of Fritz Reuter:
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||
Singular | min | din | sin | ehr | sin |
Plural | uns' | jug | ehr |
References
[edit]- ^ Alfred v. d. Velde: Zu Fritz Reuter! Praktische Anleitung zum Verständniß des Plattdeutschen an der Hand des ersten Kapitels des Fritz Reuter'schen Romanes: „Ut mine Stromtid“. 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1881, p. 15
Middle English
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ick
- Alternative form of I
North Frisian
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ick
- Alternative form of ik
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