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ick /ɪk / informal
exclamation mainly North American English used to express disgust:
There are rats here? Ick!.
noun [mass noun]
1 mainly North American English an unpleasantly sticky or congealed substance:
she scrubbed the ick off the back of the stove.
2 (the ick) a sudden feeling of being repelled or disgusted by someone and no longer attracted to them:
I spent all day worrying if my chin spot had given her the ick
one of my friends got the ick because the man she was with lost his balance when the train started up.
– ORIGIN 1940s: probably imitative.