Definition of "ick"

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.

2014, Vicki Robin, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: Lessons from a 10-Mile Diet

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.

2011, J. Morgan, Southern Werewolf Chronicles Book Two: Were the Moon Don't Shine

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

2015, Chris Lynch, Killing Time in Crystal City, page 182

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

1999 March 30, judy wieder, “Steve Kmetko's true hollywood story”, in The Advocate, page 36

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

2017, Caragh M. O'Brien, The Keep of Ages, page 36

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.

2018, NJ Damschroder, Manifest Destiny

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

2022, Anna Williamson, Where is the Love?: The Honest Guide to Dating and Relationships

: How can you stand such an ick ?

1963, Thomas A. Erhard, The Electronovac Gasser: A Farce in Three Acts, page 45

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

2009, Mary-Janice Davidson, Nina Bangs, Janelle Denison, Surf's Up

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

2012, Doris Piserchia, The Dimensioneers

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

2013, Tara Taylor Quinn, It Happened on Maple Street

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

2022, Jamila Coleman, Surviving Seventeen… And The Years Leading Up To It, page 159

'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.'

2012, Sue Moorcroft, Dream a Little Dream

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

2015, Candy J Starr, Bad Boy Rock Star: The Complete Story

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.

2021, Jacqueline Firkins, How Not to Fall in Love, page 201