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Messier42 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Icky

What's icky? Does it only mean sticky? When do you use this word?
  

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I use it as tasteless, gooey, sickening, nasty....

  • I use it as tasteless, gooey, sickening, nasty....
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I use it as tasteless, gooey, sickening, nasty....
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PhilipI use it as tasteless, gooey, sickening, nasty....
Ah, babies.
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Thank you.
This vegetable taste icy. ( it has not taste)
This cream pie is icky. (Gooey)
Could you give me some more examples for icky?
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messier42Could you give me some more examples for icky?
Why don't you try to come up with some and let us see if we think they apply?
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It means disgusting. Note: in the US this word is used only by females, primarily young girls and teens.
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AnonymousIt means disgusting. Note: in the US this word is used only by females, primarily young girls and teens.
I hadn't thought of it this way, but you are most likely correct.
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Oh,,,,I see.
The taste is icky.
The cream is icky . Do they sound correct?
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Some examples of usage:

A third grade boy brings his pet tarantula to school and lets it crawl all over his face. A third grade girls sees this and says: "That's icky."

Another boy brings his pet boa constrictor to school stored in his pants. When he brings it out to show his classmates a girl says: "That's icky."

It should be added that the related exclamation for "

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