ick

intj

1. An exclamation of disgust.

   “Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick!”

   “Some foot fetishists look for a woman to stomp on them while wearing exotic shoes, while others just want to lick a woman’s toes. (Ick. Can you say, bacteria festival?)”

   “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.”

noun

1. (informal, uncountable)Something distasteful or physically unpleasant to touch.

   “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.”

   “The UN, for its part, has suggested eating insects as a way of feeding those extra mouths, which may put the frankenmeat ick factor in perspective.”

   “Did you get ick all over my things? Should I walk myself through a car wash on the way home?”

2. (countable, informal, uncountable)A feeling of revulsion.

   “to have the ick”

   “And I was nodding, "Uh-huh," trying not to have an ick attack, worrying, Is my face giving something away?”

   “I wish none of this bothered me, but I feel this ick about Burnham and it isn't going away.”

   “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.”

   “And as sad as that can be, we can't fake our feelings – if you've got the ick, you've got the ick.”

3. (countable, slang, uncountable)Anything moaned about; a gripe.

   “How can you stand such an ick ?”

   “Of course, the idea of drinking blood is a total ick right now, but I suppose once you—”

   “For the umpteenth time that day one of my fellow men regarded me with scorn. “You're so icky. Such an ick.””

   “I keep thinking back to last Valentine's Day—I was such an ick—and you sent me that card.”

   “The thought of him and his obsessive begging for sex gave me a predatory vibe and was a total ick.”

4. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of ich (“fish disease”).
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of inhibitor cystine knot.

   “The composition of the venoms of the first three is dominated by short (3–9-kDa) disulfide-rich peptides that contain the inhibitor cysteine knot (ICK) motif, although heavier proteins, including enzymes, are also present. ICK peptides are structurally very stable and mainly target the nervous system, acting primarily on membrane channels or neuronal receptors^(3,4,5).”

adj

1. (informal)Icky; distasteful or unpleasant.

   “'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.'”

   “He thought she would be an embarrassment. That kind of made me feel a bit ick.”

   “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.”