STICKIT Definition & Meaning

stickit

[ stik-it ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Scot.

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

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of stickit¹

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

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"Before I'll be called a robber's wife, I'll rather be stickit wi' your bloody knife, For pu'in the rose and the fair lilie,15 For pu'in them sae fair and free."

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"Before I'll be called a robber's wife, I'll rather be stickit wi' your bloody knife, For pu'in the rose and the fair lilie,55 For pu'in them sae fair and free."

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"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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It’s from inside ye’re going to tak care o’ Miss Hazel, not from without, all stickit with the murdering spears of black sauvages.”

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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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