# ick
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪk/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪk

### Etymology 1
#### Interjection

ick
* An exclamation of disgust
    Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick!
** 2014, Vicki Robin, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: Lessons from a 10-Mile Diet: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.

##### Synonyms

* ew
* ugh
* yuck

##### Related terms

* icky

### Etymology 2

Back-formation of icky.

#### Noun

ick (plural not attested)
* (informal, uncountable) Something distasteful or physically unpleasant to touch.
** 2011, J. Morgan, Southern Werewolf Chronicles Book Two: Were the Moon Don't Shine: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.
** 2015, Chris Lynch, Killing Time in Crystal City, page 182:Did you get ick all over my things? Should I walk myself through a car wash on the way home?
* (informal) A feeling of revulsion.
    to have the ick
** 1999 March 30, judy wieder, “Steve Kmetko's true hollywood story”, in The Advocate, page 36:And I was nodding, "Uh-huh," trying not to have an ick attack, worrying, Is my face giving something away?
** 2017, Caragh M. O'Brien, The Keep of Ages, page 36:I wish none of this bothered me, but I feel this ick about Burnham and it isn't going away.
** 2018, NJ Damschroder, Manifest Destiny: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.
** 2022, Anna Williamson, Where is the Love?: The Honest Guide to Dating and Relationships:And as sad as that can be, we can't fake our feelings – if you've got the ick, you've got the ick.
** 2024 March 12, J. Edward Moreno, quoting Kathryn D. Coduto, “Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:“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.
* (slang) Anything moaned about; a gripe.
** 1963, Thomas A. Erhard, The Electronovac Gasser: A Farce in Three Acts, page 45:How can you stand such an ick ?
** 2009, Mary-Janice Davidson, Nina Bangs, Janelle Denison, Surf's Up:Of course, the idea of drinking blood is a total ick right now, but I suppose once you—
** 2012, Doris Piserchia, The Dimensioneers:For the umpteenth time that day one of my fellow men regarded me with scorn. “You're so icky. Such an ick.”
** 2013, Tara Taylor Quinn, It Happened on Maple Street:I keep thinking back to last Valentine's Day—I was such an ick—and you sent me that card.
** 2022, Jamila Coleman, Surviving Seventeen… And The Years Leading Up To It, page 159:The thought of him and his obsessive begging for sex gave me a predatory vibe and was a total ick.

#### Adjective

ick
* (informal) icky; distasteful or unpleasant.
** 2012, Sue Moorcroft, Dream a Little Dream:'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.'
** 2015, Candy J Starr, Bad Boy Rock Star: The Complete Story:He thought she would be an embarrassment. That kind of made me feel a bit ick.
** 2021, Jacqueline Firkins, How Not to Fall in Love, page 201: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.

#### Derived terms

* ick factor

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

ick (uncountable)
* Alternative form of ich (“fish disease”)

### Anagrams

* CKI

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

ick
* Alternative form of ik: I

## German
### Alternative forms

* ik
* icke (disjunctive)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Low German ik/ick, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Doublet of ich.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪk/
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

ick (conjunctive)
* (regional, Berlin) I
    Ick liebe dir!I love you!
    Weeß ick nich. Keene Ahnung!I don’t know. Not a clue!

#### Usage notes

* Also used by Johann Christian Trömer alias Jean Chrêtien Toucement, who wrote in a mixture of French and German, like how a French would (mis-)pronounce German.

#### See also

* ich

### References

* ↑ Encyclopädie der deutschen Nationalliteratur oder biographisch-kritisches Lexicon der deutschen Dichter und Prosaisten seit den frühesten Zeiten; nebst Proben aus ihren Werken. Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Dr. O. L. B. Wolff. Siebenter Band. Schmauss bis Z, 1842, p. 395, s.v. „Johann Christian Trömer“: „schrieb Tr. [= Trömmer] in einem Mischmasch von französisch und deutsch, wie es ungefähr ein Franzose sprechen würde“

## Low German
### Alternative forms

* ik
* ek, eck
* Ravensbergisch: eck, ek (used besides ick)
* Münsterländisch: -k (enclitic; used besides ick)

### Etymology

From Middle Low German ik, from Old Saxon ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪk/

### Pronoun

ick
* I (first person singular pronoun)
    ick schreev di en Breef
       I wrote you a letter
    Ick keem, ick seeg, ick wunn
       I came, I saw, I conquered. (veni, vidi, vici, attributed to Julius Caesar.)

#### Declension

In the dialect of Fritz Reuter:
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 3rd person | 3rd person |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Singular | Nominative | ick | du | hei | sei | dat ('t) |
| Singular | Accusative | mi | di | em | ehr | dat |
| Plural | Nominative | wi | ji | sei | sei | sei |
| Plural | Accusative | uns | jug (ju) | sei | sei | sei |

#### Related terms

* mien (possessive: my, mine)
* sick (reflexive, for the 3rd person)
Possessive pronouns in the dialect of Fritz Reuter:
| | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 3rd person | 3rd person |
| | 1st person | 2nd person | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Singular | min | din | sin | ehr | sin |
| Plural | uns' | jug | ehr | ehr | ehr |

### References

* ↑ Alfred v. d. Velde: Zu Fritz Reuter! Praktische Anleitung zum Verständniß des Plattdeutschen an der Hand des ersten Kapitels des Fritz Reuter'schen Romanes: „Ut mine Stromtid“. 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1881, p. 15

## Middle English
### Pronoun

ick
* Alternative form of I

## North Frisian
### Pronoun

ick
* Alternative form of ik