To completely hate the new work ick

[Goldengirl123]

I won’t even read the posts when people use this ridiculous word in the title

Haha I like her heebie jeebies though

It’s the sort of word you’d expect from six year old child, not from grown adult women who are supposed to be mature. It’s childish and people who use it need to grow up.

Very disappointed. Thought this was going to be about a new activity going on in the workplace.

I opened this thread purely because I thought wtf is a work ick?

What’s a work ick?

Sorry all, I should have checked before posting. It shouldn’t have said work, I meant word!

So you're saying that "ick" gives you the ick?

Exactly

I disagree OP, I think it does its job as a word! It is a bit childish/silly, because that's what an ick is. It isn't finding your boyfriend in bed with another woman, it's the way he holds his spoon when eating soup...

I completely get what you mean though, I think we all have words that for whatever reason, we just don't like!

What do you say? Expressions like “repulsed by” are too wordy.

I think that the concept is very reasonable. Many women aren’t encouraged to trust their instincts like men are and are encouraged to be people pleasers and follow #bekind sort of nonsense. They believe that the feeling can be fixed when they should let that situation go because there’s no coming back.

Why don't you like it OP? Is it because it gives you the ick?

It's a stretch to call the word "ick" articulating anything meaningful at all, especially given the mission creep a PP referred to.

It had a very specific original meaning - a behaviour that irrationally turned you off someone you'd previously been attracted to, often signifying that the emotional connection was dead or dying.

It's useless as a catch-all though, and actually seems to be a shorthand that prevents the person using it from actually thinking about why they feel that way. And it very often veers into mean-girl territory when it's just trotted out about the physical characteristics of people you only know in passing.

And it becomes even more meaningless when applied outside a romantic context.

Like a lot of neologisms, something that encapsulated a feeling perfectly inevitably gets wrecked by overuse. Happens to all slang words.

I don't like it and wouldn't say it.
And I hate 'gifted' instead of given, hack' instead of tip and 'side hustle' instead of sideline.

Oh, come off it. "On noticing his cartoon socks, I found my libido had suddenly evaporated" may be semantically acceptable, but nowhere near as pithy.

It’s not new at all. It’s been around since late 90s (Ally McBeal coined the phrase for its current dating/relationship use). It exploded in
more popular language with Love Island. Language evolves, OP. Bit silly to get so wound up about these things.

I remember using the word when I was at school in the mid 90s it just meant to find something a bit gross. It’s actually related to a problem fish get with their scales

Suit yourself. As a term it has been around a long time...way before the internet.