Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Prickly; rough.

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Examples

  • Not that I wanted to be bad friends with Bob Chowne; but I knew that he was only in one of his "stickly" fits, as we used to call them, and that it would soon be over.

    Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore George Manville Fenn 1870

  • To move from this stickly, near surface deposit into your and my gas tanks requires: bulldozing forest to dig up the tar sands (using bulldozers that dwarf the average suburban home in size), using natural gas to heat steam (think massive amounts of water) to heat the tar to 500 degrees or more to extract the "oil", and processing this still quite direty oil into gasoline.

    A. Siegel: Tar and Feather... 2009

  • I miss the good old days of Nickelodeon with stick stickly and Salute your Shorts.

    LEVERAGE: 'Til Death. Like A Steel Cage Match. Rogers 2009

  • The stickly feeling from a non humidity-controlled room is due to the high moisture content in our air .. charliebrown

    www.hardwarezone.com.sg charliebrown 2010

  • Ah pretty much everything the government tries to regulate ends in with stickly fingers in high places, until it is found out, then they can explain it away.

    www.the-daily-record.com's Homepage Articles 2009

  • And alas, I'm finding ways to return to the keyboard and stickly tap away in front of the wind tunnel I've constructed, and carve out a story or two for this space.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • You cannot submit more than 4000 characters as a message. dunlop rr dunlop 208rr excellent tyre got 2300 miles outta them on the blade stickly as fuck,,,,,

    unknown title 2009

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