Ickiness

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or condition of being icky. uncountable
  2. 2
    Something that is icky. countable

    "Then Sara opened up her teapot to remove the tea bag and gasped, “There is an ickiness in here!” and of course Leroy got all excited and peered in at what first seemed to be a small brain."

Example

More examples

"Then Sara opened up her teapot to remove the tea bag and gasped, “There is an ickiness in here!” and of course Leroy got all excited and peered in at what first seemed to be a small brain."

Etymology

From icky + -ness.

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