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stickest
stickest
English
Verb
stickest
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of stick
- ~1598, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 1, line 1343–1344:
- [Shylock:] Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my / gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!
- 1787, William Jones, "Hitopadesa of Vishnusarman" (1787, aka "Hitopadesa of Vishnu Sarman"); repr. in Works (1807), Vol. 13, p. 8:
- [...] alas! my child, by not passing the night wisely in reading, when thou art among the learned, thou stickest like a calf in the mud.
- ~1598, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 1, line 1343–1344:
Etymology 2
From stick (“sticky”, adjective) + -est (“superlative”).
Adjective
stickest
- (nonstandard, informal) superlative form of stick: most stick (stickiest).
- What is the stickest kind of gum?
- What is the stickest tape to hold something up with?
- What is the stickest thing on earth?