Icky vs Inky - What's the difference?
icky | inky |
(informal) unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting
(informal) excessively sentimental
of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
spattered or stained with ink
As adjectives the difference between icky and inky
is that icky is (informal) unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting while inky is of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.icky
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Adjective
(er)- I stepped in something icky and it smells terrible.
inky
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Adjective
(er)- Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.