Advertisement

Advertisement

stickit

[ stik-it ]

adjective

, Scot.
  1. (of a task or product) imperfect; ruined.
  2. (of a person) unsuccessful, especially in a chosen occupation.


Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of stickit1

1780–90; variant of sticked. See stick 2, -ed 2
Discover More

Example Sentences

But surely he does not want to be known as "The Stickit Minister."

Some of the horses that stickit were, says Barbour, rushed and reeled right rudely.

She 'ill aye be the bonniest as weel as the noblest o' weemen in ma een till they be stickit in deith.

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

Then the auld ass made anither out of a broken canoe paddle, and stickit the thing up in my cook-shed!

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


stick-in-the-mudstick it to someone