stakeyadj.
/ˈsteɪki/, U.S. /ˈsteɪki/, Canadian English /ˈsteiki/ slang (chiefly Canadian).
Well provided with money; ‘flush’.
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the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > having large amount of money
pecuniousc1400
moneyed1457
well-moneyed1479
purse-full1600
pursy1602
flush1603
moneyful1604
moneyfied1620
millioned1747
millionary1816
millionaire1864
millionairish1874
coiny1891
multimillionaire1893
financialized1898
stakey1919
1919 Camp Worker (Vancouver) 28 June 7/1 If they hold a job for a month they have done something out of the ordinary, and as a consequence, they are never very staky, and the question of funds comes first in most cases.
1927 Amer. Speech 2 392/1 When a staky worker comes to town, his giving money to his impecunious acquaintances is called the pay-off.
1960 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 8 Oct. 28/1 I wasn't going to go in, because at the time I wasn't stakey.
1970 P. St. Pierre Chilcotin Holiday 31 On being assured that the prisoner was stakey, the mayor imposed a ten-dollar fine.
1973 B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xv. 172 Why, we was making 15 cents a glass... Both of us were getting stakey as hell.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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