Icky vs Licky - What's the difference?
icky | licky |
(informal) unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting
(informal) excessively sentimental
Prone to licking.
* 1981 , Don Bannister, Long day at Shiloh
* 2003 , Michael Wordsmiff, James Baggit and the Storyteller's Ring - Page 13
*:He was a proper dog; a great, woolly, lolloping beast with huge paddy paws, a waggy tail and a very licky tongue.
* 2007 , Augusten Burroughs, Possible Side Effects : True Stories - Page 25
*:As soon as the dog was safely enclosed within the area of our legs, it became happy and licky . He ran to one then the other. Then he sat on the floor and watched us watching him.
As adjectives the difference between icky and licky
is that icky is (informal) unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting while licky is prone to licking.icky
English
Adjective
(er)- I stepped in something icky and it smells terrible.
licky
English
Adjective
(er)- ...but she gives you the feeling all the time that she's bony that's it bony and if she does fancy it she sure as hell don't show it get a lickier kiss from Granny Coombs than I do offen her all that Methodis' stuff I guess