ticcy

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adjective

Exhibiting tics.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveticcy (comparative more ticcy, superlative most ticcy)

comparative more ticcy · superlative most ticcy

  1. Exhibiting tics.
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    It was clear that the action of the drug was, in a sense, unpredictable, in that it might call forth a variety of behaviours: given the initial form of behaviour — whether tongue-pulsing, therapeutic, catatonic, ticcy-palilalic, formicatory, or hallucinatory — the rest of the reaction would follow this form.

    1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Origin

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APA

ticcy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ticcy

MLA

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Chicago

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