🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

기분 나쁜

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gibun nappeun

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
icky/ˈɪki/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"손에 끈적한 게 묻어서 기분 나빠요."

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1 sense
As adjective
  1. 1

    Unpleasantly sticky, slimy, or otherwise repulsive.

    "Get that icky mud off your boots before you come inside."

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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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