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ickle

/ ˈɪkəl /

adjective

  1. informal.
    an ironically childish word for little
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The proceeds will be sent to Ickle Pickles, a charity that provides intensive care equipment for premature babies.

We need ickle pink packets with ickle pink crisps for our lady mouths..

From BBC

When anyone says, “Can we have a two-woman ticket for the US presidency?” they’re saying, “We all know that the thought of two women in the highest office of power will cause a lot of people to throw up all over themselves. So let’s not hurt their ickle feelings by suggesting it, ’kay?”

In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell imagines a genteel lady “enthusing” over a book of dog photos: “a Peke, the ickle angel pet, wiv his gweat big Soulful eyes and his ickle black nosie – oh so duckyduck!”

“Worrying about poor ’ickle goblins, now, are you?”

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