flicky
adjective, noun
flicky is an adjective meaning “Easily flicked; thus, light and fast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-I-C-K-Y, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Flicky, the name).
What does flicky mean?
adjective
- 1
informalEasily flicked; thus, light and fast.
She got a new, flicky haircut.
- 2
Resembling or characteristic of a flick.
a flicky motion
noun
- 1
slangflick knife, switchblade
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flicky?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-flicky.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flicky
- flickier comparative
- flickiest superlative
- flickies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flicky?
Flicky appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Flicky, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flicky come from?
From flick + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).