Definitions
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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
stick . - adjective nonstandard, informal
superlative form ofstick : moststick (stickiest ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting! fourscore ducats!
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Why fliest thou so fast from thy friend, and stickest so close to thine enemy?
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Prithee, fool, mind thy own business, and stick to thy shop or thy station, whatever it may be; to which while thou stickest, thou must be respectable, but which when thou wouldst quit, desperately to seize the hem of our lordship's garment, thou becomest the laughing-stock of us and of our class, and we cannot choose but despise thee thoroughly.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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Thou stickest somewhat better to thy tackling, I see,
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Why fliest thou so fast from thy friend, and stickest so close to thine enemy?
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'O Mansoul, neither is my commission, nor inclination, at all to do thee hurt; why fliest thou so fast from thy friend, and stickest so close to thine enemy?
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Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting! fourscore ducats!
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Thou dost not stick to infringe her universal and undoubted laws; but stickest to thy own special and fantastic rules, and by how much more particular, uncertain, and contradictory they are, by so much thou employest thy whole endeavour in them: the laws of thy parish occupy and bind thee: those of God and the world concern thee not.
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Thou dost not stick to infringe her universal and undoubted laws; but stickest to thy own special and fantastic rules, and by how much more particular, uncertain, and contradictory they are, by so much thou employest thy whole endeavour in them: the laws of thy parish occupy and bind thee: those of God and the world concern thee not.
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The GT steps, FFs remember them well, and the stickest carpet in the world.
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