ickle

/ ˈɪkəl /

adjective

1. informal.
   an ironically childish word for little

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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?”

From The Guardian

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!”

From The Guardian

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

From Literature