Definition of Stickit

1. a. Stuck; spoiled in making.

Definition of Stickit

1. unsuccessful [adj] - See also: unsuccessful

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stickit

stickinesses
sticking
sticking(p)
sticking-place
sticking-places
sticking-point
sticking out(p)
sticking place
sticking places
sticking plaster
sticking plasters
sticking point
sticking points
sticking up
stickings
stickit (current term)
stickjaw
stickjaws
stickle
stickleback
sticklebacks
stickled
stickler
sticklerism
sticklers
stickles
sticklike
stickling
stickman
stickmen

Literary usage of Stickit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"FROM "THE stickit MINISTER."1 BY 8. R. CROCKETT. ... He has written: "The stickit Minister," "The Raiders," "Mad Sir Uchtred of the Hills," "The Play ..."

2. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor (1898)
"Where the towers of the North fret the skies of the East. FROM "THE stickit MINISTER." BY 8. R. CROCKETT. [SAMUEL RUTHERFORD CROCKETT, Scotch author, ..."

3. Memories Grave and Gay: Forty Years of School Inspection by John Kerr (1902)
"... RELATION TO THE UNIVERSITY—FIRST SCOTTISH CODE—"NO USE PUMPING WHEN THE WELL'S DRY" — SCOTTISH AND ENGLISH GRADUATES COMPARED—A "stickit MINISTER. ..."

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