stickest
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
stickest
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of stick
- 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]:
- 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.
Etymology 2[edit]
From stick (“sticky”, adjective) + -est (“superlative”).
Adjective[edit]
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?
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