stickit

[ stik-it ]

adjective

, Scot.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of stickit¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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