Gen Z’s "The Ick" describes that gut-level disgust at mundane behaviours. The term is dominating the modern dating world.

Whether you're a baby boomer or millennial, you're likely struggling to keep up with the times and feeling rather old. Gen Z friends keep coming up with slang words that might be giving you "the ick," ...

In her notes app, 26-year-old Dani Coco has a list. Items include “posing with fish” and “weird flexes.” It’s her list of online dating “icks,” behaviors or profile descriptions that are so instantly ...

Boop! The dictionary has more words now — though some might give you the ick. The Cambridge Dictionary added more than 3,200 words this year — including some Gen Z slang terms that will have some ...

Have you ever dreamed up your perfect partner? He's soft-spoken, romantic and …. wait, he's into live-action role-play? Ick! (Or ... maybe not?) It's a catchall for turnoffs large and small, and a ...

To translate “the ick” from the mother tongue of the internet to spoken English, it simply means “a turn-off,” but with a twist. The ick is a guttural kind of turn-off, and one that is completely ...

If you've ever been on a first — or second, or tenth — date and found yourself cringing over one of your love interest's quirks, then you're not alone. There's a name for that surprising feeling of ...

Got the ick? Whilst it spells trouble for the relationship, the concept of the ick might have more to do with intuition than ...

Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager learned a “buzzy new relationship term” on Today With Hoda & Jenna and were quick to use it against one another during Wednesday’s (Feb. 28) broadcast. “We didn’t even ...

Psychologists may have identified the top trigger of "the ick" for women—and it's a tie between saying annoying things and being misogynistic. The researchers, from the Azusa Pacific University in ...

The ick is giving me the ick. In a world of trending dating terminology, "the ick" has proven surprisingly enduring. Headlines like "Three Ways to Combat the Ick" or "Got the Ick?" continue to flood ...

Have you ever been on a date where everything seemed fine... until they did that one thing? Maybe they had odd, unbecoming mannerisms, used cringeworthy slang words, or chose an outfit for the date ...