Definitions
Unpleasantly sticky, messy, or disgusting.
Word origin
1935, American English; from icky-boo (circa 1920): sickly, nauseated; baby talk corruption of sick; from a sentimental term for jazz music.
Used in a sentence
“I stepped in something icky and it smells terrible.”
“Crew member Sachin Sharma of India said workers had no problems with being thrust into the icky job of handling the red bags filled with human waste.”
“I'm not going to work today. I just feel icky.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Rather gross”4 letters
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