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icky
adjective- unattractive, distasteful US, 1929
First found in jazz to describe oversweet music other than jazz, then migrated into general use with the more general meaning. - With all your high and mighty scorn for all icky, longhair, corn! — Haenigsen, Jive’s Like That, 1947
- After class, however, she confessed to me that she thought Mr. Obispo was icky. — Max Shulman, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, pp. 97–98, 1951
- But if she doesn’t turn in a tip for every hat, she loses her job on grounds she swiped the money or she is so stupid or icky that she gets stiffed. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 282, 1951
- It was one of those icky desert winds we call the Santa Ana[.] — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 124, 1957
- “It was a pretty icky scene, I can tell you.” — Robert Newton, Bondage Clubs U.S.A., p. 72, 1967
- For six rigorous days, she had driven her body to its limits, rising at six forty-five to flop about the countryside in a pale pink sweatsuit, her face stripped of makeup, her hair drab and icky in a thick coat of Vaseline. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 196, 1978
- Your true feelings were too gross and icky for you to face. — Heathers, 1988
- Some part of me is not comfortable with myself, my own sexuality; I’m still icky about it somewhere inside. — Robert Stoller and I.S. Levine, Coming Attractions, p. 102, 1991
- [T]his brand new spanking blender is icky with goop. — Simon Lewis, In The Box, p. 131, 1999
- unwell UK, 1939
Probably from babay-talk variations of “sick” or “sickly”. - My stomach felt icky, like I might throw up. — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, p. 174, 2002
- overly sentimental, especially of music or of a taste in music US, 1929
Originally from jazz. - There’s a cheesy dance floor in the bar, so it’s icky, old-fashioned music. — Leslie O’Kane, Death of a PTA Goddess, p. 239, 2002
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