单词 | stickable |
释义 | stickableadj. colloquial. Capable of sticking or of being stuck. Also (and in earliest use) in figurative context. ΚΠ 1857 J. W. Francis N.Y. during Last Half-cent. 145 He loved Shakespeare..because..when once in memory he was a fixture, his language..was so stickable. 1863 L. M. Alcott Let. Sept. in M. Stern L. M. Alcott: Signature of Reform (2002) 122 Flags are flapping every where, wreaths & ‘Welcome home’ are stuck on every stickable place. 1878 Eng. Mech. 13 Sept. 23/2 If it [sc. paste] is not stickable it will be his own fault. 1955 College Eng. 17 20 A small, round, orange-red, stickable sealing-wafer. 1993 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 7 Nov. Labor is understood to have been trying to..get some ‘stickable dirt’ on the Premier. 2010 Times of India (Nexis) 29 Aug. The use of multi-coloured stick-notes..on all files... In the speedy clearance of a certain file..all the stickable notes can be removed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1857 |
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