sticky

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• /ˈstɪki/
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• CMU ARPABET: S T IH1 K IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From stick + -y.

So called because they sold adhesive lilies to commemorate the Easter Rising.

102 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: կպչուն (kpčʻun) — able or likely to stick
• Asturian: pegañosu — able or likely to stick
• Central Bikol: mapulot — able or likely to stick
• Bulgarian: леплив (lepliv) — able or likely to stick
• Catalan: enganxós — able or likely to stick
• Catalan: apegalós — able or likely to stick
• Cebuano: pilit — able or likely to stick
• Chinese Mandarin: 黏 (nián) — able or likely to stick
• Choctaw: shinʋshbi — able or likely to stick
• Dutch: kleverig — able or likely to stick
• Dutch: plakkerig — able or likely to stick
• Esperanto: adhera — able or likely to stick
• Esperanto: glueca — able or likely to stick
• Estonian: kleepuv — able or likely to stick
• Finnish: tarttuva — able or likely to stick
• Finnish: tahmea — able or likely to stick
• French: collant — able or likely to stick
• French: gluant — able or likely to stick
• French: poisseux — able or likely to stick
• Galician: pegañento — able or likely to stick
• Galician: pegañoso — able or likely to stick
• Galician: apegadizo — able or likely to stick
• German: stickig — able or likely to stick
• German: klebrig — able or likely to stick
• Greek: κολλώδης (kollódis) — able or likely to stick
• Ancient Greek: γλίσχρος (glískhros) — able or likely to stick
• Hungarian: ragadós — able or likely to stick
• Hungarian: ragacsos — able or likely to stick
• Hungarian: tapadós — able or likely to stick
• Hungarian: öntapadó — able or likely to stick
• Icelandic: klístraður — able or likely to stick
• Indonesian: lengket — able or likely to stick
• Ingrian: tarttuva — able or likely to stick
• Irish: greamaitheach — able or likely to stick
• Italian: vischioso — able or likely to stick
• Japanese: 粘着性のある (nenchakusei no aru) — able or likely to stick
• Japanese: 粘り気のある (nebarike no aru) — able or likely to stick
• Japanese: ベタベタする (betabeta suru) — able or likely to stick
• Lao: ຫນຽວ (niāu) — able or likely to stick
• Latin: viscidus — able or likely to stick
• Latvian: lipīgs — able or likely to stick
• Māori: ngingita — able or likely to stick
• Māori: kūpiapia — able or likely to stick
• Marathi: चिकट (cikaṭ) — able or likely to stick
• Khiamniungan Naga: yàpyàpkò — able or likely to stick
• Norwegian: klissete — able or likely to stick
• Old English: clibbor — able or likely to stick
• Plautdietsch: bakrich — able or likely to stick
• Polish: lepki — able or likely to stick
• Portuguese: grudento — able or likely to stick
• Portuguese: pegajoso — able or likely to stick
• Romanian: lipicios — able or likely to stick
• Russian: ли́пкий (lípkij) — able or likely to stick
• Russian: кле́йкий (kléjkij) — able or likely to stick
• Scottish Gaelic: leanailteach — able or likely to stick
• Spanish: pegajoso — able or likely to stick
• Spanish: adherente — able or likely to stick
• Spanish: adherible — able or likely to stick
• Swedish: klibbig — able or likely to stick
• Swedish: kladdig — able or likely to stick
• Swedish: kletig — able or likely to stick
• Thai: เหนียว (nǐao) — able or likely to stick
• Turkish: yapışkan — able or likely to stick
• Ottoman Turkish: یاپشقان (yapışkan) — able or likely to stick
• Ukrainian: липкий (lypkyj) — able or likely to stick
• Ukrainian: липучий (lypučyj) — able or likely to stick
• Unami: psàkwe — able or likely to stick
• Unami: psàkwsi — able or likely to stick
• Vietnamese: dính — able or likely to stick
• Volapük: kleböfik — able or likely to stick
• Yiddish: קלעפּיק (klepik) — able or likely to stick
• Yiddish: קלעפּעדיק (klepedik) — able or likely to stick
• Dutch: lastig — potentially difficult to escape from
• Dutch: hachelijk — potentially difficult to escape from
• Esperanto: malfacila — potentially difficult to escape from
• Esperanto: embarasa — potentially difficult to escape from
• Esperanto: ĝena — potentially difficult to escape from
• French: collant — potentially difficult to escape from
• French: délicat — potentially difficult to escape from
• German: heikel — potentially difficult to escape from
• Hungarian: kényes — potentially difficult to escape from
• Hungarian: kínos — potentially difficult to escape from
• Hungarian: bajos — potentially difficult to escape from
• Japanese: 厄介な (yakkai na) — potentially difficult to escape from
• Japanese: 難しい (muzukashii) — potentially difficult to escape from
• Japanese: 不愉快な (fuyukai na) — potentially difficult to escape from
• Spanish: peliagudo — potentially difficult to escape from
• Spanish: escabroso — potentially difficult to escape from
• Spanish: predeterminado — persistent across multiple incarnations of a widget
• Spanish: pegajoso — that keeps visitors from leaving it
• Spanish: popular — that keeps visitors from leaving it
• Spanish: exitoso — that keeps visitors from leaving it
• Finnish: koukuttava — of weather
• Hungarian: fülledt — of weather
• Hungarian: izzasztó — of weather
• Mongolian: бүгчим чийгтэй (bügčim čiigtej) — of weather
• Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠭᠴᠢᠮ ᠴᠢᠭᠢᠭᠲᠡᠢ (bügčim čigigtei) — of weather
• Spanish: bochornoso — of weather
• Swedish: klibbigt — of weather
• Hungarian: öntapadós cédula — sticky note, such as a Post-It
• Spanish: recado adherible — sticky note, such as a Post-It
• Portuguese: fixar — to fix a thread at the top of the list