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stickit

/stik-it/US // ˈstɪk ɪt //

粘贴,黏贴,粘性,棍子

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Scot.

    • : imperfect; ruined.
    • : unsuccessful, especially in a chosen occupation.

Examples

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

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

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

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

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