stick

nl-noun

stick m (plural sticks, diminutive stickje n)

sticks (plural)
stickje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed shortenings from several English compounds, in all cases equivalent to a borrowing from English stick.


stick

The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.

Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.

2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.

I found several good sticks in the brush heap.

What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.

It is a fine stick, about 70 feet long.

1887 August 23, “At Work on the Thistle”, in The New York Times:

A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.

I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.

(US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).

A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).

I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.

The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.

As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.

A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.

When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the sticks.

1997, Joseph Beals, “Building Interior Doors”, in Doors, Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 82:

(carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.

The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.

(nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.

A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.

We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.

It is more than poor Philip is worth, with all his savings and his little sticks of furniture.

1862, W.M. Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip, printed in Harper's New Monthly Magazine volume XXV edition, page 242:

(figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).

A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).

The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.

Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.

(chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).

Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.

Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!

A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.

Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.

(slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).

A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).

Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.

My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.

Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.

A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.

Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it[…]

1611, The Bible, King James Version edition, Ezekiel 37:16:

Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.

(archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.

A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.

Scores of transport planes streamed in to drop stick after stick of containers until the entire sky over the coast was polka-dotted with brightly coloured parachutes.

2001, Raymond Mitchell, Commando Despatch Rider, →ISBN, page 70:

A stick of bombs fell straight across Wotton; blew up half a dozen houses.

2006, Farley Mowat, Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World, →ISBN, page 200:

James and I were in the same stick of five guys going through free fall school last September.

2006, Holly Aho, From Here to There, →ISBN, page 48:

(military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.

I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn't.

A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

(US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.

A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.

(US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.

Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.

(aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)

For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much stick and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.

1941, Jay D. Blaufox, 33 Lessons in Flying, page 47:

(aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.

Use of the stick to control the aircraft.

(US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.

For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a stick as images.

2007 May 1, Alex Fethiere, “Business Traveler”, in Tech front: Alex Fethiere takes eleven notable portables for a high-tech test-drive:

A stick in the hand, a drop in the eye.

2007 September 18, “Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya”, in Joseph B. Geoghegan (lyrics), The Meanest of Times, performed by Dropkick Murphys:

You think you’re real now you’ve got a couple sticks? My favourite younger, he got stabbed in my bits. And if he died fam, I promise I’d have quit.

2013 April 8, “Off the Record”, in Topic of Discussion, performed by Yungen:

Bitch, pig, pull out with the stick / everything I hit like a lick/ We don’t miss

2018 July 27, “Strip Talk”, Marty Mula (lyrics), 1:52:

[…]although the headings may often be in other type, still, as these are composed in the same stick, they cannot fail to justify;[…]

1854, Thomas Ford, The Compositor's Handbook, page 125:

(dated, letterpress typography) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.

A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.

Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that stick, man?

1948, Frederic Ramsey, Jr., “Deep Sea Rider”, in Charles Harvey, editor, Jazz Parody: Anthology of Jazz Fiction:

Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.

(sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.

(horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.

A stick-like item:
The short whip carried by a jockey.

(boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.

His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.

(golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.

The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.

His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.

(US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.

The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.

He shoots a mean stick of pool.

Come in, have a good time, drink some beer, shoot some stick, listen to some music.

2003, Lew Bryson, New York Breweries, →ISBN, page 74:

The game of pool, or an individual pool game.

The game of pool, or an individual pool game.

I doubted that the three iron was enough stick.

1988, William Hallberg, The Rub of the Green, page 219:

(sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically:

(golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.

The long-range driving ability of a golf club.

(baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.

The potential hitting power of a specific bat.

Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough stick to win.

2002 May 19, Mike Lupica, “Just Need A Little Mo”, in New York Daily News:

Ability; specifically:
General hitting ability.

(field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.

"She's a stick, this one. She lacks your—" he patted her left breast— "equipment."

1967, Cecelia Holland, Rakóssy, page 39:

(slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)

A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.

A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.

The kid was a stick, a plant, a student from UNLV who picked up a few bucks nightly by saying the words "seven of hearts."

2001, Paul Quarrington, The Spirit Cabinet, page 255:

(magic) An assistant planted in the audience.

A shill is also called a stick, and the role of the shill or stick is to make the customer relax and feel at ease.

Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a stick," didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War.

2001, John Darrell Sherwood, Fast Movers: America's Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience, page 30:

(military aviation, from joystick) A fighter pilot.

I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our stick of soldiers walked through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,[…]

2007, Bart Wolffe, Persona Non Grata, →ISBN, page 245:

(military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers.

Your father's a great old stick. He's really been very good to me.

1967, Maurice Shadbolt, The Presence of Music: Three Novellas, page 54:

“[…]He’s a good doctor but an odd stick—odder by far than I am, Emily, and yet nobody ever says he’s not all there. Can you account for that? He doesn’t believe in God—and I am not such a fool as that.”

1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon:

Coordinate term: carrot

What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a stick to dissuade people from writing or talking about them?

1998 January 23, “Judicial activism has ushered in hope”, in Indian Express:

Back in 2009, when Democrats tried but failed to take significant climate action, their policy proposals consisted mainly of sticks—limits on emissions in the form of permits that businesses could buy and sell.

2023 August 7, Paul Krugman, “Climate Is Now a Culture War Issue”, in The New York Times:

Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.

(figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)

Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.

The child killers got some stick. I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer.

1999, Eve McDougall, A Wicked Fist, →ISBN, page 69:

(slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment; beatings.

He really gave that digging some stick.
He threw himself into the task of digging.

She really gave that bully some stick.
She berated him.
This sense melts into the previous sense, "punishment".

Give it some stick!

'Choir gave it some stick on "Unto Us a Son is Born."' ¶ Cynthia nodded. ¶ 'It was always one of Russell's favourites. He makes them try hard on that.'

1979, Don Bannister, Sam Chard, →ISBN, page 185:

(slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.

Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.

Skunk really gave it some stick all the way to Caliban's place, we passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye.

2006, Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red, →ISBN, page 163:

There was another speech in that day's news — a speech which The Times printed on the front page because it was part of a front-page story, and in full — it was only two sticks long; printed in full just after the much longer invocation by the officiating clergyman […]

1921, Elmer Davis, History of the New York Times, 1851-1921, page 61:

(obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.

An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.

The stick is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five.

1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, →ISBN, Volume 1, page 171:

In the same charter, Nigel granted another 10 sticks of eels yielded by the fishery of Polwere to the abbey[…]

1999, Claire Breay, The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey, →ISBN, page 62:

(archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25.

A measure.
A quantity of eels, usually 25.

en-noun

stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

→ Catalan: estic

→ Italian: stick

→ Korean: 스틱 (seutik)

→ Portuguese: stique, estique

→ Sranan Tongo: tiki

From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”). Related to stigma.

inh

Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”)

der

Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”)


stick

(carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.

to stick type

(transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.

(transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.

en-verb

stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle sticked)

sticks (present singular third-person)
sticking (participle present)
sticked (participle past)
sticked (past)


stick

(uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.

(motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.

(uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).

Problem: A lot of stick and a lack of energy on the forward stroke.

2004, Simon Gawesworth, Spey Casting, →ISBN, page 47:

(fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.

What if Veronica Prego was lying about who drew the blood and it was her own carelessness, not Joyce Fogel's, which caused the needle stick?

1990 April 21, Michael Bronski, “Innocent Victims”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

(countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.

From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-Germanic *stikōną (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).
See also the related Proto-Germanic *stikaną, whence West Frisian stekke, Low German steken, Dutch steken, German stechen; compare also Danish stikke, Swedish sticka.
Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French étiquette – see there for further discussion.


stick

The tape will not stick if it melts.

The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.

1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: ….”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, pages 77–78, column 2:

I haue stucke vnto thy Testimonies: O Lord put me not to shame.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 119:31:

Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

(intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.

To become or remain attached; to adhere.

The lever sticks if you push it too far up.

Why do most course organizers stick the job for less than five years?

1998, Patrick McEvoy, Educating the Future GP: the course organizer's handbook, page 7:

(transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.

His old nickname stuck.

"Our team did brilliantly to be in the game. We stuck at it and did a good job. This is disappointing but we'll think about the next game tomorrow."

2011 December 10, David Ornstein quoting David Moyes, “Arsenal 1-0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:

(intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.

After this contencion, the common people did ſticke vnto king Agis, and the riche men followed Leonidas, praying and perſwading him not to forſake them: and further, they did ſo intreate the Senators, in whom conſiſteth the chiefe authority,[…]

1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 852:

What I get from work makes me a better mother, and what I get from being a mother makes me a better journalist. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

2007, Amanda Lamb, Smotherhood: Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years:

Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.

(intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.

For thou art so possess’d with murderous hate
That ’gainst thyself thou stick’st not to conspire.

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 10”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

Some stick not to say, that the Parson and Attorney forg’d a Will, for which they were well Paid […]

1712, John Arbuthnot, chapter 1, in Law is a Bottomless Pit, London: John Morphew:

, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 12,
Though a cup of cold water from some hand may not be without its reward, yet stick not thou for wine and oil for the wounds of the distressed […]

And so careful were they to put off the Honour of great Actions from themselves, and to centre it upon God, that they stuck not sometimes to depreciate themselves that they might more effectually honour him.

1740, James Blair, Our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount … explained, volume 3, page 26:

For he that sticks not at one bad Action, will not scruple another to vindicate himself: And so, Devil-like, become the Tempter, and the Accuser too!

1741, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXVII”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 375:

The First-fruits were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in sacrificiing Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the Smoke, and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with human Sacrifices.

1743, Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity, edition 3 (London), page 524

(dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).

He that has to do with young scholars, especially in mathematics, may perceive how their minds open by degrees, and how it is exercise alone that opens them. Sometimes they will stick a long time at a part of a demonstration, not for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas; that, to one whose understanding is more exercised, is as visible as any thing can be.

a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC, § 6, pages 29–30:

(dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.

1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church-of-England-Man, with respect to Religion and Government, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, 7th edition, Edinburgh: G. Hamilton et al., 1752, Volume I, Miscellanies in Prose, p. 73,
[…] this is the Difficulty that seemeth chiefly to stick with the most reasonable of those, who, from a mere Scruple of Conscience, refuse to join with us upon the Revolution Principle […] .

(dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.

To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.

Stick the label on the jar.

(transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.

Stick your bag over there and come with me.

Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).

To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).

The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.

to stick a needle into one's finger

The points of spears are stuck within the shield.

1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.

In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they sticked him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed, sticked, and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins.

circa 1583, John Jewel, in a sermon republished in 1847 in The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, portion 2, page 969

Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting! fourscore ducats!

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

[…] ſome of them attempted with Spears to ſtick me in the Sides; but, by good luck, I had on me a Buff Jerkin, which they could not pierce.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 10:

[…] would haue [=have] sticked him with a dagger […]

1809, Grafton's chronicle, or history of England, volume 2, page 135:

It was a shame […] to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray.

1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

The defendant said he didn't shoot; "he sticked him with a knife."

1908, The Northeastern Reporter, volume 85, page 693:

(transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.

to stick an apple on a fork

(transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.

To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.

my shroud of white, stuck all with yew

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

(transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.

To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.

Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.

(transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.

Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly.

(botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.

(transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.

to stick somebody with a hard problem

(dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.

To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.

Chillin' in a Benz with my amigos / Tryin' to stick a nigga for his pesos

1996, “No Time”, in Hard Core, performed by Lil' Kim ft. Diddy:

(transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.

To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.

You ain't lickin' this, you ain't stickin' this

1996, Lil' Kim (lyrics and music), “Not Tonight”:

You leave your girl around me; if she's bad she's gonna get stuck.

2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

(intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

(intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.

en-verb

stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle stuck or (archaic) sticked)

sticks (present singular third-person)
sticking (participle present)
stuck (participle past)
stuck (past)
sticked (archaic participle past)
sticked (archaic past)

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on

لَصِقَ

to become attached, to adhere (intransitive)


stick

A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.

A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.

(informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.

en-adj

stick (comparative sticker, superlative stickest)

sticker (comparative)
stickest (superlative)


stick

(obsolete) The customary length (according to the material used) of a piece or roll of textile fabrics imported from Flanders.

From Middle English stick, stik, steik, from Middle Dutch stic, stec, stuc (“piece”), from Old Dutch *stukki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“piece”). Cognate with German Stück (“piece”), Middle English stucche, sticche (“piece”).


stick

I got some stick personally because of my walking attire. I arrived to training fully kitted out in sturdy walking boots.

2008 May 3, Chris Roberts, “It’s a stroll in the park!”, in Huddersfield Daily Examiner:

Possibly a metaphorical use of the first etymology ("twig, branch"), possibly derived from the Yiddish schtick.


stick

(colloquial) first-person singular present of sticken


stick

stick del timone

stick del telefono

a metal stick needed to reach where the arm cannot


stick

stick de memorie

stick deodorant

stickuri (plural)
stick (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
stickul (accusative definite nominative singular)
stickuri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
stickurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
stick (indefinite singular)
stickului (definite singular)
stickuri (indefinite singular)
stickurilor (definite plural)
stickule (singular vocative)
stickurilor (vocative)


stick

stick (indefinite nominative singular)
sticks (genitive indefinite singular)
sticket (definite nominative singular)
stickets (definite genitive singular)
stick (indefinite nominative plural)
sticks (genitive indefinite plural)
sticken (definite nominative plural)
stickens (definite genitive plural)

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