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10 Language-to-English Dictionaries気持ち悪い
Pronunciation / Transliteration: kimochiwurui
"その虫は触りたくないほど気持ち悪い。"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
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Unpleasantly sticky, slimy, or otherwise repulsive.
"Get that icky mud off your boots before you come inside."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Coined as a childish alteration of 'sick', with the diminutive or affective suffix '-y', first recorded around the early 20th century.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "icky" is said worldwide
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cucul
Transliteration: cucul
"Je n'aime pas les films avec des romances aussi icky."
eklig
Transliteration: eklig
"Fass das nicht an, das ist total eklig."
viscido
Transliteration: viscido
"Questo cibo ha una consistenza viscida."
asquerosito
Transliteration: asquerosito
"No quiero tocar ese bicho asquerosito."
nojento
Transliteration: nojento
"Ele deixou o sanduíche cair na lama, agora está nojento."
घिनौना
Transliteration: ghinauna
"मुझे यह चिपचिपा और घिनौना खाना पसंद नहीं है।"
令人作呕的
Transliteration: lìng rén zuò ǒu de
"地上有黏糊糊且令人作呕的东西。"
기분 나쁜
Transliteration: gibun nappeun
"손에 끈적한 게 묻어서 기분 나빠요."
気持ち悪い
Transliteration: kimochiwurui
"その虫は触りたくないほど気持ち悪い。"
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