dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/ick_MW.json
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{
"icky":{
"antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"congenial",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"welcome"
],
"definitions":{
": offensive to the senses or sensibilities : distasteful":[
"put off by her icky triteness",
"\u2014 Renata Adler"
]
},
"examples":[
"The trail was icky with mud.",
"the novel has an icky sentimentality that makes my skin crawl",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Today\u2019s outdoor textiles have a softer hand and resist the growth of icky microorganisms. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t let the blistering hot weather on icky summer days deter you from wearing them all season long. \u2014 Vogue , 24 May 2022",
"Our heroine Cam pulls off a truly icky DIY surgery in the back of a speeding vehicle being driven by desperate men. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 8 Apr. 2022",
"And not even a moral victory type of loss, but something icky . \u2014 Damon Young, Washington Post , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Since his untimely death in 1988, however, Basquiat has become iconic in the icky , modern way; more closely associated with high-profile bidding wars and branded merchandise than an actual creative vision. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 9 Apr. 2022",
"That said, as written the characters almost dare viewers to care too deeply about them, and the show's attempts to be edgy occasionally feel simply icky , including a later encounter in which a gun is brandished as a kind of foreplay. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 9 Jan. 2022",
"But others wince, because no matter how sophisticated the storytelling or agreeable the politics, an icky aftertaste remains. \u2014 Maurice Chammah, Longreads , 18 Mar. 2022",
"This concerned father\u2019s comment that his young granddaughter had too many pairs of underwear (37!) was both icky \u2026 and revealing. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1929, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps baby talk alteration of sticky":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8i-k\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bitter",
"disagreeable",
"displeasing",
"distasteful",
"harsh",
"nasty",
"rotten",
"sour",
"uncongenial",
"unlovely",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unpleasing",
"unsavory",
"unwelcome",
"wicked",
"yucky",
"yukky"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090017",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"ick":{
"type":[
"interjection"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1967, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-060623"
},
"icker":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a head of grain":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ik\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"from (assumed) Middle English (Scots dialect), from Old English eher , variant of \u0113ar":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-072155"
},
"Ickes":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Harold LeClair 1874\u20131952 American politician":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8i-k\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-084426"
},
"ickle":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": icicle":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ik\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English ikel":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-055246"
}
}