[Ads-l] Antedating of "Icky" (Adjective and Noun)

[Shapiro, Fred]

icky, adj. (OED 1935)

1934 Down Beat Aug. 2/2 (RIPM Jazz Periodicals)  How can we expect the public ... to differentiate between ... what is modern in "hot playing" amd what os "corney" "Magee" "Icky" passe, or what have you ?

icky, n. (OED 1937)

1936 Lewiston (Me.) 21 Mar. 4/5 (Newspapers.com)  A couple of cats who've been doing jam-sessions in a nitery keep plugging a number that lays the ickies out in the aisles.

Fred Shapiro

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