Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Stuck.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Scot. Stuck; spoiled in making.
  • adjective a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.

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Examples

  • I cut stickit notes into thirds and stick them below my laptop screen.

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  • Jock Wilson had once found a shilling; another boy had seen "fower swine stickit a 'in wan day;" another could smoke a pipe of Bogie Roll without sickening (but I had to promise not to tell the Mester).

    A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

  • Listen, ye stickit stibbler, to what I tell ye, or ye sall rue it while there’s a limb o’ ye hings to anither!

    Chapter XLVI 1917

  • "There he gaes -- the stickit comic," I heard one man say, as I passed.

    Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

  • The way that second rate amateur poses as a man of science, having authority as a sort of papistical Scotch dominie, bred a minister, but stickit, really

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • Lichts was then the humiliation of seeing their pulpit "supplied" on alternate Sabbaths by itinerant probationers or stickit ministers.

    Auld Licht Idylls 1898

  • Lichts was then the humiliation of seeing their pulpit "supplied" on alternate Sabbaths by itinerant probationers or stickit ministers.

    Auld Licht Idyls 1898

  • There had even been an indulgence in hot words, and the Reverend Alexander Kewans, a "stickit minister," but not of the Auld Licht persuasion, had withdrawn in dudgeon on hearing

    Auld Licht Idyls 1898

  • Ellieslaw's friend stickit your sire after the laird himself had mastered his sword. ''

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • Alexander Kewans, a "stickit minister," but not of the Auld Licht persuasion, had withdrawn in dudgeon on hearing Tammas asked to conduct the ceremony instead of himself.

    Auld Licht Idylls 1898

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