ikkle

English

Adjective

ikkle (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of ickle.
    • 1917, George W. Gough, chapter 19, in The Yeoman Adventurer‎[1]:
      Next there was Baby Blount to be waited upon, and his mother, a pretty, appealing lady, with the glory of motherhood about her like a fairy garment. Part of the ceremonial was the putting of Master Blount into my arms, which was done very gingerly, with abundant cautions and precautions against my crushing or dropping him. He had a skin like white satin and a silvery down on his charming little head. Altogether I thought him a most desirable possession for a man to have, and wished he was mine, particularly when, to his father's outspoken chagrin, instead of puling he stared steadily at me with big blue eyes and smiled. "Precious ikkle ducksy-wucksy," said his mother. "Ugly ikkle monkey-wonkey," cried his father. "Why the deuce can't he smile at me?"
    • 2024, Steph Jones, chapter 1, in The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy, London: Jessica Kingsley Publisher, →ISBN, page 55:
      You tend to take things literally when you're autistic (and ikkle) and such comments made me grow up with a belief that I was a bad person and deeply manipulative underneath.
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