† stuckn.²

Forms: 1600s stuck, 1600s stucke.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: stock n.³

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of stock n.³

Obsolete.

A thrust or lunge with a pointed weapon; = stock n.³ 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions

buttc1330

overheadc1400

stopc1450

quarter-strokea1456

rabbeta1500

rakea1500

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home thrust1622

longee1625

falsify?1635

false1637

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disarm?1700

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passade1706

riposte1707

swoop1711

retreat1734

lunge1748

beat1753

disengage1771

disengagement1771

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time thrust1771

timing1771

whip1771

shifting1793

one-two1809

one-two-three1809

salute1809

estramazone1820

remise1823

engage1833

engaging1833

risposta1838

lunging1847

moulinet1861

reprise1861

stop-thrust1861

engagement1881

coupé1889

scrape1889

time attack1889

traverse1892

cut-over1897

tac-au-tac riposte1907

flèche1928

replacement1933

punta dritta1961

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 134 If he by chaunce escape your venom'd stuck .

1614 G. Hale Private Schoole Defence sig. C1 In single Rapier, and Rapier and Dagger, they teach all their Schollers as they call them, Stucks, otherwise Longe, to throw them into hit without disordering their aduerse Rapier.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 268 I had a passe with him, rapier, scabberd, and all: and he giues me the stucke in with such a mortall motion that it is ineuitable.

1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd i. 16 Here the Crum-picking King puts in a stuck With a bright needle, his stiff Spanish Tuck; Which pierc'd Frogpadocks skin, through's Dragons mail.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

stuckadj.²

Brit.

/stʌk/, U.S.

/stək/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English stuck , stick v.¹

Etymology: < stuck, past participle of stick v.¹ Compare earlier sticked adj.¹ With sense 2 compare earlier stickit adj.

1. Of an animal, esp. a pig: that has had a knife thrust into its neck; that has been stuck (stick v.¹ 1c); = sticked adj.¹ 1. Chiefly in similative phrases as to bleed like a stuck pig, to stare like a stuck pig, to squeal like a stuck pig, etc. (cf. to stare like a (dead) pig at pig n.¹ Phrases 7).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > [adjective] > thin or weak > injured

stuck1671

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze

stareOE

gawc1175

darea1225

porec1300

muse1340

glowc1374

gogglec1380

gazec1386

glore?a1400

glopc1400

govec1480

glower?a1513

gowk1513

daze1523

amuse1532

glew1587

to feed one's eyes1590

to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598

to shoot one's eyes1602

glazea1616

stargaze1639

gaum1691

to stare like a stuck pig1702

ygaze1737

gawk1785

to feed one's sight1813

gloze1853

glow1856

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > feel wonder, be amazed [verb (intransitive)] > gaze in wonder

gaurec1374

starea1375

gape1377

to stare like a stuck pig1702

gawp1728

1671 Bp. S. Parker Def. Eccl. Politie 415 Like some Creatures (you may wot of) that if they may not have their will in every trifle, will roar and bellow like a stuck Ox.

1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court iii. 11 Like a Stuck Pig the Woman star'd.

?1746 J. Symmonds Wandsworth Campaign 31 To the North repair with Race-Horse Speed, There, like stuck Oxen, make the Rebels bleed.

1753 Whole Duty of Woman xx. 48 The roaring of the stuck swine exciteth not our pity.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. i. 161 Ask for the rent-roll,—see how they'll look! stare like stuck pigs!

1812 Sporting Mag. 40 66 Bleeding like a stuck pig.

1847 Godey's Lady's Bk. Feb. 98/1 He squealed like a stuck pig as I forced him against a tree, and begged for mercy.

1854 T. B. Thorpe Hive of ‘Bee-Hunter’ 264 A grunt that would have done honor to a stuck pig was heard.

1916 Harper's Monthly Mag. 1 June 819/2 I knew I knew you; that was why I stood and stared like a stuck pig.

1934 L. Charteris Boodle vi. 136 Squealing like a stuck pig, Sir Melvin Flager tore the lorry back on to its course.

1992 G. Vanderhaeghe Things as they Are? 32 His mother told him that he had screamed bloody blue murder, screamed like a stuck pig.

2004 R. A. Posner in C. R. Sunstein & M. C. Nussbaum Animal Rights ii. 69 The logical implication of his philosophy that if a stuck pig experiences more pain than a stuck human, the pig has the superior claim to our solicitude.

2015 Daily Mail (Nexis) 6 June The vested interests will squeal like stuck pigs, of course.

2. Scottish and Irish English (northern). Of a person undertaking a specific calling or profession: unable to pursue a career; unsuccessful, failed. Cf. stickit adj. 1. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > rendered immobile or held fast

clought?a1400

loggedc1820

stalled1845

stuck1845

stranded1851

immobilized1910

seized1911

1845 T. Denham Poems & Snatches of Prose 107 There were among some really clever chemists, a sprinkling of those green-spectacled gentry of the itinerant order—stuck doctors—who set up small druggist shops in obscure quarters.

1877 A. G. Murdoch Laird's Lykewake 47 The critics are our only foes! Stuck poets are they all.

1885 Revol. in Shorthand 7 I studied Pitman's system..for three or four months, but became a ‘stuck’ student.

1910 D. W. Bone Brassbounder 3 We come from our first voyage sick of it all... Would give up but for pride... Afraid to be called ‘stuck sailors’.

1955 Naut. Res. Jrnl. 7 176 In those days before personal ambition and sense of responsibility was ‘diluted’ as it is in many cases today it was considered a shame without end for a boy to return home, ‘a stuck sailor’.

3. Joinery. Designating a moulding that is cut into the timber with a plane rather than being fixed or planted on to its surface. Cf. stick v.¹ 11c.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > moulding > types of moulding

bowtelled?1578

bolectioned1693

reconciling1754

zigzag1765

quirked1774

reeded1801

nebule1823

studded1838

nail-headed1842

stuck1850

keeleda1878

1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Stuck mouldings. In arch., mouldings formed by the planes instead of being wrought by the hand.

1879 Manufacturer & Builder Sept. 213/1 Architraves of principal rooms 7 inches wide, with 3-inch band molding with plinths for first story, and 5-inch stuck molding in second story.

1909 P. A. Wells & J. Hooper Mod. Cabinet Work (1910) v. 69 ‘Stuck’ mouldings on doors, framing, &c., require a mitre template.

1919 Building Age Mar. 88/1 The panels are liable to become loose because of the decided tendency of the ‘stuck’ mouldings to ‘cup’, or warp, away from the panels.

2002 P. Brett Bench Joinery iv. 105 This method avoids the need to scribe or mitre the shoulders of the rails which applies with stuck mouldings.

a. Held fast or trapped in some place or position; unable to move or be moved.Cf. mud-stuck adj. at mud n.¹ Compounds 1d.

ΚΠ

1865 P. Barry Shoeburyness & Guns xviii. 238 The heads of the stuck shot were seen, but the repelled shot did not penetrate so far.

1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) iii The sturdy parson..gave the stuck wheel such a powerful heft, that the whole cart rattled.

1901 Agric. Gaz. New S. Wales 11 685 The stuck plough can be dug and cut out.

1971 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 4 July 14 c/1 The interview..started with a locksmith breaking a stuck lock into Dennis Wilson's hotel room.

2014 Derby Tel. (Nexis) 5 Sept. 22 (heading) Stuck child freed.

b. figurative. Of a person, relationship, or situation: unable to progress or develop; blocked, stalled.

ΚΠ

1913 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Jan. 188/1 In ‘stuck’ cases, where open-air treatment had carried improvement to a certain point, it [sc. tuberculin] sometimes yielded good results.

1972 Hansard Lords 2 Feb. 852 Talks have a curious way of attracting people who started by refusing to attend... In this present, stuck situation it might be worth trying.

1979 D. Klimek Beneath Mate Select. & Marriage v. 213 There are so many unhappy, stuck relationships and unhappy, stuck people.

1981 Newsweek (Nexis) 13 July (Life/Style section) 73 Stuck marriages often break up—or worse, don't.

1994 L. Domash & J. Sachs Wanna be my Friend? vi. 131 It may be easier for your child to abandon the ‘stuck’ friendship if he gets into a relationship with another child where there's a healthy give-and-take.

2014 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (Nexis) 13 Feb. Union leaders don't support things like mandatory mediation or binding arbitration that district advocates favor to resolve stuck negotiations.

Compounds

C1. With adverbs, forming adjectives corresponding to phrasal verbs at stick v.¹, as stuck-down, stuck-on, etc.: attached, sealed, or adhering in a specified way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [adjective] > attached by something adhesive

glued1705

stuck1829

glued-on1906

1829 G. Cowie Bookbinder's Man. 44 Worked head-bands are used for the former, and should consist of silk; and stuck-on head-bands for the latter, which are made of small pieces of striped linen of various colours.

1908 R. Kipling Actions & Reactions (1909) 101 The Hive shook beneath the shattering thunder of a stuck-down quilt being torn back.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 815/2 Stuck-on soles (Shoes), shoe soles in which the upper inner sole and the outer sole are attached together by means of strong cement; used for women's and children's shoes.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. (Suppl.) 7 A whitewood bedside cabinet is given a stuck-on veneer finish.

1978 D. Francis Trial Run xviii. 228 One of them handed me a stuck-down envelope.

1992 D. Pinckney High Cotton ii. 32 The obligatory bowl of stuck-together rock candy.

2007 Daily Tel. 17 July 24/1 A collage of a strangely hermaphroditical figure, complete with stuck-on gems.

C2.

stuck record n. a scratched record which when played sticks at a particular point and repeats the same brief passage; chiefly in similes and metaphors referring to annoying and constant repetition; cf. broken record n. at broken adj. Additions.

ΚΠ

1943 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 25 Mar. 4 a/7 When..[the] commander..calls the roll, he sounds like a stuck record as he arrives at the ‘w's’. The Weeks family..is responsible.

1968 A. K. Armah Beautyful Ones are not yet Born ix. 141 He was silent, but inside his head the refrain circled like a stuck record.

1979 Wilson Q. 3 186/1 Northern Ireland is a stuck record, and a historical nightmare.

2013 D. Rothenberg Bug Music ii. 67 I think of Brian Eno stuck in bed, unable to move, at the very moment he supposedly invents ambient music by being unable to stop the stuck record from skipping.

2015 Sc. Express (Nexis) 19 May 22 (headline) Sturgeon like a stuck record on referendum.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	stuck
释义	† stuckn.¹ Forms: late Middle English stuk. Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: stuck adj.¹; scut n.³ Etymology: Origin and sense uncertain. Perhaps (i) < stuck adj.¹, or perhaps (ii) an error for or alteration of scut n.³, given elsewhere in the same manuscript in a gloss for classical Latin nepticula , lit. ‘little niece’ in its post-classical sense ‘very short garment’ (2nd cent.). Compare scut n.³ and stucked adj.It is also possible that stuk in the quot. is intended as a synonym of schort , and therefore shows an instance of stuck adj.¹ Obsolete. rare. Perhaps: a short garment. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > of specific length > short > article of scutc1440 stuck1440 shorty1942 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 481 Stuk, or schort garment [a1500 King's Cambr. stukkyd clothe], nepticula. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † stuckn.² Forms: 1600s stuck, 1600s stucke. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: stock n.³ Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of stock n.³ Obsolete. A thrust or lunge with a pointed weapon; = stock n.³ 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions buttc1330 overheadc1400 stopc1450 quarter-strokea1456 rabbeta1500 rakea1500 traverse1547 flourish1552 quarter-blow1555 veny1578 alarm1579 venue1591 cut1593 time1594 caricado1595 fincture1595 imbroccata1595 mandritta1595 punta riversa1595 remove1595 stramazon1595 traversa1595 imbrocado1597 passado1597 counter-time1598 foinery1598 canvasado1601 montant1601 punto1601 stock1602 embrocadoc1604 pass1604 stuck1604 stramazo1606 home thrust1622 longee1625 falsify?1635 false1637 traversion1637 canvassa1641 parade1652 flanconade1664 parry1673 fore-stroke1674 allonge1675 contretemps1684 counter1684 disengaging1684 feint1684 passing1687 under-counter1687 stringere1688 stringering1688 tempo1688 volte1688 overlapping1692 repost1692 volt-coupe1692 volting1692 disarm?1700 stamp1705 passade1706 riposte1707 swoop1711 retreat1734 lunge1748 beat1753 disengage1771 disengagement1771 opposition1771 time thrust1771 timing1771 whip1771 shifting1793 one-two1809 one-two-three1809 salute1809 estramazone1820 remise1823 engage1833 engaging1833 risposta1838 lunging1847 moulinet1861 reprise1861 stop-thrust1861 engagement1881 coupé1889 scrape1889 time attack1889 traverse1892 cut-over1897 tac-au-tac riposte1907 flèche1928 replacement1933 punta dritta1961 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 134 If he by chaunce escape your venom'd stuck . View more context for this quotation 1614 G. Hale Private Schoole Defence sig. C1 In single Rapier, and Rapier and Dagger, they teach all their Schollers as they call them, Stucks, otherwise Longe, to throw them into hit without disordering their aduerse Rapier. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 268 I had a passe with him, rapier, scabberd, and all: and he giues me the stucke in with such a mortall motion that it is ineuitable. View more context for this quotation 1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd i. 16 Here the Crum-picking King puts in a stuck With a bright needle, his stiff Spanish Tuck; Which pierc'd Frogpadocks skin, through's Dragons mail. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † stuckadj.¹ Forms: late Middle English stuk, late Middle English stug, late Middle English stuke. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a word inherited from Germanic. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: scut adj. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps (i) < the same Germanic base as stitch n.², or perhaps (ii) a variant of scut adj. Compare stuckness n.¹, stucked adj.For possible evidence of earlier currency compare the surname Wilellmi Stuke (1256). Obsolete. rare. Short. Cf. stucked adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > [adjective] shortc888 scutc1440 stuck1440 span-long1593 junky1873 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 481 Stuk, short [a1500 King's Cambr. stug, stukkid, schort], curtus, brevis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2021). stuckadj.² Brit. /stʌk/, U.S. /stək/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English stuck , stick v.¹ Etymology: < stuck, past participle of stick v.¹ Compare earlier sticked adj.¹ With sense 2 compare earlier stickit adj. 1. Of an animal, esp. a pig: that has had a knife thrust into its neck; that has been stuck (stick v.¹ 1c); = sticked adj.¹ 1. Chiefly in similative phrases as to bleed like a stuck pig, to stare like a stuck pig, to squeal like a stuck pig, etc. (cf. to stare like a (dead) pig at pig n.¹ Phrases 7). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > [adjective] > thin or weak > injured stuck1671 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze stareOE gawc1175 darea1225 porec1300 muse1340 glowc1374 gogglec1380 gazec1386 glore?a1400 glopc1400 govec1480 glower?a1513 gowk1513 daze1523 amuse1532 glew1587 to feed one's eyes1590 to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598 to shoot one's eyes1602 glazea1616 stargaze1639 gaum1691 to stare like a stuck pig1702 ygaze1737 gawk1785 to feed one's sight1813 gloze1853 glow1856 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > feel wonder, be amazed [verb (intransitive)] > gaze in wonder gaurec1374 starea1375 gape1377 to stare like a stuck pig1702 gawp1728 1671 Bp. S. Parker Def. Eccl. Politie 415 Like some Creatures (you may wot of) that if they may not have their will in every trifle, will roar and bellow like a stuck Ox. 1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court iii. 11 Like a Stuck Pig the Woman star'd. ?1746 J. Symmonds Wandsworth Campaign 31 To the North repair with Race-Horse Speed, There, like stuck Oxen, make the Rebels bleed. 1753 Whole Duty of Woman xx. 48 The roaring of the stuck swine exciteth not our pity. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. i. 161 Ask for the rent-roll,—see how they'll look! stare like stuck pigs! 1812 Sporting Mag. 40 66 Bleeding like a stuck pig. 1847 Godey's Lady's Bk. Feb. 98/1 He squealed like a stuck pig as I forced him against a tree, and begged for mercy. 1854 T. B. Thorpe Hive of ‘Bee-Hunter’ 264 A grunt that would have done honor to a stuck pig was heard. 1916 Harper's Monthly Mag. 1 June 819/2 I knew I knew you; that was why I stood and stared like a stuck pig. 1934 L. Charteris Boodle vi. 136 Squealing like a stuck pig, Sir Melvin Flager tore the lorry back on to its course. 1992 G. Vanderhaeghe Things as they Are? 32 His mother told him that he had screamed bloody blue murder, screamed like a stuck pig. 2004 R. A. Posner in C. R. Sunstein & M. C. Nussbaum Animal Rights ii. 69 The logical implication of his philosophy that if a stuck pig experiences more pain than a stuck human, the pig has the superior claim to our solicitude. 2015 Daily Mail (Nexis) 6 June The vested interests will squeal like stuck pigs, of course. 2. Scottish and Irish English (northern). Of a person undertaking a specific calling or profession: unable to pursue a career; unsuccessful, failed. Cf. stickit adj. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > rendered immobile or held fast clought?a1400 loggedc1820 stalled1845 stuck1845 stranded1851 immobilized1910 seized1911 1845 T. Denham Poems & Snatches of Prose 107 There were among some really clever chemists, a sprinkling of those green-spectacled gentry of the itinerant order—stuck doctors—who set up small druggist shops in obscure quarters. 1877 A. G. Murdoch Laird's Lykewake 47 The critics are our only foes! Stuck poets are they all. 1885 Revol. in Shorthand 7 I studied Pitman's system..for three or four months, but became a ‘stuck’ student. 1910 D. W. Bone Brassbounder 3 We come from our first voyage sick of it all... Would give up but for pride... Afraid to be called ‘stuck sailors’. 1955 Naut. Res. Jrnl. 7 176 In those days before personal ambition and sense of responsibility was ‘diluted’ as it is in many cases today it was considered a shame without end for a boy to return home, ‘a stuck sailor’. 3. Joinery. Designating a moulding that is cut into the timber with a plane rather than being fixed or planted on to its surface. Cf. stick v.¹ 11c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > moulding > types of moulding bowtelled?1578 bolectioned1693 reconciling1754 zigzag1765 quirked1774 reeded1801 nebule1823 studded1838 nail-headed1842 stuck1850 keeleda1878 1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Stuck mouldings. In arch., mouldings formed by the planes instead of being wrought by the hand. 1879 Manufacturer & Builder Sept. 213/1 Architraves of principal rooms 7 inches wide, with 3-inch band molding with plinths for first story, and 5-inch stuck molding in second story. 1909 P. A. Wells & J. Hooper Mod. Cabinet Work (1910) v. 69 ‘Stuck’ mouldings on doors, framing, &c., require a mitre template. 1919 Building Age Mar. 88/1 The panels are liable to become loose because of the decided tendency of the ‘stuck’ mouldings to ‘cup’, or warp, away from the panels. 2002 P. Brett Bench Joinery iv. 105 This method avoids the need to scribe or mitre the shoulders of the rails which applies with stuck mouldings. 4. a. Held fast or trapped in some place or position; unable to move or be moved.Cf. mud-stuck adj. at mud n.¹ Compounds 1d. ΚΠ 1865 P. Barry Shoeburyness & Guns xviii. 238 The heads of the stuck shot were seen, but the repelled shot did not penetrate so far. 1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) iii The sturdy parson..gave the stuck wheel such a powerful heft, that the whole cart rattled. 1901 Agric. Gaz. New S. Wales 11 685 The stuck plough can be dug and cut out. 1971 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 4 July 14 c/1 The interview..started with a locksmith breaking a stuck lock into Dennis Wilson's hotel room. 2014 Derby Tel. (Nexis) 5 Sept. 22 (heading) Stuck child freed. b. figurative. Of a person, relationship, or situation: unable to progress or develop; blocked, stalled. ΚΠ 1913 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Jan. 188/1 In ‘stuck’ cases, where open-air treatment had carried improvement to a certain point, it [sc. tuberculin] sometimes yielded good results. 1972 Hansard Lords 2 Feb. 852 Talks have a curious way of attracting people who started by refusing to attend... In this present, stuck situation it might be worth trying. 1979 D. Klimek Beneath Mate Select. & Marriage v. 213 There are so many unhappy, stuck relationships and unhappy, stuck people. 1981 Newsweek (Nexis) 13 July (Life/Style section) 73 Stuck marriages often break up—or worse, don't. 1994 L. Domash & J. Sachs Wanna be my Friend? vi. 131 It may be easier for your child to abandon the ‘stuck’ friendship if he gets into a relationship with another child where there's a healthy give-and-take. 2014 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (Nexis) 13 Feb. Union leaders don't support things like mandatory mediation or binding arbitration that district advocates favor to resolve stuck negotiations. Compounds C1. With adverbs, forming adjectives corresponding to phrasal verbs at stick v.¹, as stuck-down, stuck-on, etc.: attached, sealed, or adhering in a specified way. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [adjective] > attached by something adhesive glued1705 stuck1829 glued-on1906 1829 G. Cowie Bookbinder's Man. 44 Worked head-bands are used for the former, and should consist of silk; and stuck-on head-bands for the latter, which are made of small pieces of striped linen of various colours. 1908 R. Kipling Actions & Reactions (1909) 101 The Hive shook beneath the shattering thunder of a stuck-down quilt being torn back. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 815/2 Stuck-on soles (Shoes), shoe soles in which the upper inner sole and the outer sole are attached together by means of strong cement; used for women's and children's shoes. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. (Suppl.) 7 A whitewood bedside cabinet is given a stuck-on veneer finish. 1978 D. Francis Trial Run xviii. 228 One of them handed me a stuck-down envelope. 1992 D. Pinckney High Cotton ii. 32 The obligatory bowl of stuck-together rock candy. 2007 Daily Tel. 17 July 24/1 A collage of a strangely hermaphroditical figure, complete with stuck-on gems. C2. stuck record n. a scratched record which when played sticks at a particular point and repeats the same brief passage; chiefly in similes and metaphors referring to annoying and constant repetition; cf. broken record n. at broken adj. Additions. ΚΠ 1943 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 25 Mar. 4 a/7 When..[the] commander..calls the roll, he sounds like a stuck record as he arrives at the ‘w's’. The Weeks family..is responsible. 1968 A. K. Armah Beautyful Ones are not yet Born ix. 141 He was silent, but inside his head the refrain circled like a stuck record. 1979 Wilson Q. 3 186/1 Northern Ireland is a stuck record, and a historical nightmare. 2013 D. Rothenberg Bug Music ii. 67 I think of Brian Eno stuck in bed, unable to move, at the very moment he supposedly invents ambient music by being unable to stop the stuck record from skipping. 2015 Sc. Express (Nexis) 19 May 22 (headline) Sturgeon like a stuck record on referendum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1440n.²1604adj.¹1440adj.²1671
随便看	aftershow party aftersight afterski aftersound afterspecified afterspring afterstate afterstorm aftersum aftersun aftersunset aftersupper afterswarm afterswarms aftertable aftertale aftertask aftertaste aftertastes aftertax aftertea aftertheevent afterthinker afterthought afterthoughted

† stuckn.1

† stuckn.2

† stuckadj.1

stuckadj.2

Compounds

† stuckn.¹

† stuckn.²

† stuckadj.¹

stuckadj.²