Erky is Australian slang for something gross, yucky, or just deeply off-putting — the kind of word that sounds slightly squeamish itself.
Erky is Australian slang for something gross, yucky, or just deeply off-putting — the kind of word that sounds slightly squeamish itself. It's casual and conversational, perfectly suited to reactions like pulling a face at weird food or a messy situation. Sits comfortably alongside 'icky' and 'gross' in the vocabulary of everyday disgust.
There was this erky smell coming from the back of the fridge and nobody wanted to investigate.
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Aussie and Kiwi vocabulary — bogan, daggy, brekkie, sheila, bach, jandals — the whole Antipodean lexicon, including outback dialect, surf and beach culture, and Sydney/Melbourne street slang.
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(informal, North America, regional) icky, unpleasant, distasteful.
(US, rare) Dirty or nasty.{{cite-book.
(US, informal) , dirty, disgusting, foul, revolting, yucky, grotesque.
Informal adjective describing something unpleasantly messy, slimy, or coated in a sticky, gross substance. If something is gucky, it has that icky, hard-to-clean quality — think muddy boots, spilled sauce, or mystery residue in the fridge. The word sits somewhere between 'gooey' and 'mucky' and is often used in a mildly disgusted but light-hearted way, especially when talking to or about kids.
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(AU, colloquial) Yucky, icky, repulsive.
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