Is Irkiest A Word?

[alangreenwood]

is there a word called irkiest?

[Baldric]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Irkiest&rlz=1C1CHBD_en-GBGB703GB703&;oq=Irkiest&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2j69i61.6549j0j7&;sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=irkiest+definition

[alangreenwood]

baldrics link does not confirm the owrd or a definition

[gingejbee]

"irkiest" would be the superlative of "irky"...and there is no word "irky"...hence, no "irkiest"

[dannyk13]

Apparently it is not a word

[dannyk13]

Superlative of irk is most irksome

[douglas9401]

Right up there with bigly.

[mikey4444]

If you want to invent a word....go ahead ! That is how the language grows.

[Baldric]

https://www.anagrammer.com/scrabble/irkiest

Looks like a 'No' to me.

[gingejbee]

@dannyk..."superlative of irk is most irksome"....no, irk is a verb and most irksome is an adjectival phrase.
I said that (if irkiest was a real word), irky would be the adjective it came from...but there isn't a word "irky", so there can't be "irkiest" (or, for that matter, the comparative "irkier").

[Jackdaw33]

The clue would help.

[fiction-factory]

I think this relates t a clue I saw on here yesterday when the letter pattern given led to something close to irkiestbeing suggested but the answer was then given as something else. Hopefully someone will remember seeing/doing it

[fiction-factory]

Found it. The answer was ICKIEST (hidden in clue)
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1559765.html

[Toorak]

The answer was ickiest (if it's referring to the same clue)

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1559733.html

[Goofy]

Looks like not - but it OUGHT to be!
I shall use it and maybe next big Oxford revision will have it.

[Tilly2]

I didn't like 'ickiest' either. Who uses that word? It sounds very childish.

[Jackdaw33]

icky adj (ickier, ickiest) colloq 1 sickly; cloying or sticky. 2 repulsive, nasty or unpleasant.
ETYMOLOGY: 1930s.