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Grammar : Adj
Spell : stik-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈstɪk i



Definition of sticky

Origin :
  • 1727, "adhesive," from stick (v.). An Old English word for this was clibbor. First recorded 1864 in the sense of "sentimental;" 1915 with the meaning "difficult." Of weather, "hot and humid," from 1895. Sticky wicket is 1952, from British slang, in reference to cricket.
  • adj gummy, adhesive
  • adj humid and hot
  • adj difficult, embarrassing
Example sentences :
  • And then, when he had slipped his hand back into hers, he had encountered a sticky chocolate!
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • It was too dark to see the color, but I knew from the sticky feeling of it just what it was.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • That dirty little red, moving, sticky object was a human being.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • Here and there something brown and sticky on the leaves caught the scout's eye.
  • Extract from : « Pee-wee Harris » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  • The street had been transformed into a morass of sticky mud by the storm.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • Do all the mixing with a spoon, as it makes it sticky if you touch your hands to it.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, July 6, 1880 » by Various
  • His hand went out and recoiled from something soft and sticky.
  • Extract from : « The Heads of Apex » by Francis Flagg
  • Cold, churlish, sticky or clammy clays are never to the liking of the grape.
  • Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick
  • During the sticky flow of her words, he knew she was trying to gammon him.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • The wide, kite-like fins of rays, quivered in their sticky glue.
  • Extract from : « Mayflower (Flor de mayo) » by Vicente Blasco Ibez

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