ickle

Examples of ickle in a sentence

• Did she try to hit her ickle bruzzer on his nosie-posie wiz a mug?1919, Punch:
• A Peke, the ickle angel pet, wiv his gweat big soulful eyes and his ickle black nosie — oh so ducky-duck!1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying:

Forms of ickle

Origin of ickle

From Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English *ġicol, ġiċel (“icicle, ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *jekul, *jikil, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), diminutive of *jekô (“lump of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yeg-. Cognate with Low German Jäkel (“icicle”), Danish egel (“icicle”), Norwegian Bokmål jøkel (“glacier, icesheet”), Norwegian Nynorsk jøkul, jøkle (“glacier, icicle”), Faroese jøkul (“glacier”), Icelandic jökull (“glacier”), Swedish jökel (“glacier”) and probably Albanian akull (“ice”) (Gheg okull). Doublet of jokul.

Childish pronunciation of little.

Words formed from ickle

• brinicle
• icicle

Words that rhyme with ickle

• pickle
• nickel
• stickle
• tickle
• cuticle
• rickle
• strickle
• ethical
• mickle
• frickle
• ideological
• sickle

Questions about ickle

What does ickle mean?

Ickle means an icicle.

How do you use ickle in a sentence?

Did she try to hit her ickle bruzzer on his nosie-posie wiz a mug?

What part of speech is ickle?

Ickle can be a noun or an adjective.

What is the plural of ickle?

The plural of ickle is ickles.