Meaning of ick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something distasteful or physically unpleasant to touch.
   informal, uncountable
2. Initialism of inhibitor cystine knot.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. A feeling of revulsion.
   countable, informal, uncountable
4. Anything moaned about; a gripe.
   countable, slang, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“The UN, for its part, has suggested eating insects as a way of feeding those extra mouths, which may put the frankenmeat ick factor in perspective.”

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

“to have the ick”

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

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

“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.”

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

““People use dating apps, but I don’t know anyone who pays for it,” Ms. Wang said. In fact, she said that she would consider it an “ick” if she learned somebody was paying for a subscription.”

“How can you stand such an ick ?”

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

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

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

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

“The composition of the venoms of the first three is dominated by short (3–9-kDa) disulfide-rich peptides that contain the inhibitor cysteine knot (ICK) motif, although heavier proteins, including enzymes, are also present. ICK peptides are structurally very stable and mainly target the nervous system, acting primarily on membrane channels or neuronal receptors^(3,4,5).”

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