stickit

American  

[stik-it] / ˈstɪk ɪt /

adjective

Scot.

1. (of a task or product) imperfect; ruined.

2. (of a person) unsuccessful, especially in a chosen occupation.

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Etymology

Origin of stickit

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

Example Sentences

"These stories are lively and vigorous, and have many touches of human nature in them—such touches as we are used to from having read 'The Stickit Minister' and 'The Lilac Sunbonnet.'"

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They were Dr. Henry Fraser, the rising physician of Carn Edward, and his elder brother Robert, once Student of Divinity at Edinburgh College, whom three parishes knew as 'The Stickit Minister.'

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Almost the only thing which distinguished the Stickit Minister from the other small farmers of the parish of Dullarg was the fact that he always sat in the evening by himself ben the hoose, and did not use the kitchen in common with his housekeeper and herd boy, save only at meal-times.

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The Stickit Minister took his head off his hand and leaned wearily back in his chair.

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I worked the work of the farm, rain and shine, ever since, and have been for these six years the "stickit minister" that all the world kens the day.

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