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sticky-up

sticky-up adjective: sticking up or tending to stick up; sticky-uppy.

Adjective

sticky-up (comparative more sticky-up, superlative most sticky-up)

  1. (informal) Sticking up or tending to stick up; sticky-uppy.
    • "There was a light in the painting-room window," he said, tremulously, "and a head with black sticky-up hair all round. Then it went away."1919 August 16, The Weekly Times, Melbourne, page 50
    • All of the Fairy Wrens (fourteen in number) have "sticky-up" tails[.]1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 196

Forms of sticky-up

comparativemore sticky-up
superlativemost sticky-up

Origin of sticky-up

From stick up + -y.

Questions about sticky-up

What does sticky-up mean?
Sticky-up means sticking up or tending to stick up; sticky-uppy.
What part of speech is sticky-up?
Sticky-up is an adjective.

Words near sticky-up in the dictionary

  1. sticky-sweet
  2. sticky-tape
  3. sticky-taped
  4. sticky-tapes
  5. sticky-taping
  6. sticky-up
  7. sticky-uppy
  8. stickyback
  9. stickybacks
  10. stickybeak
  11. stickybeaked

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