sticker
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: Sticker
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈstɪkə/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈstɪkɚ/
Audio (California): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
[edit]From stick (“to pierce, to be fastened, to adhere”) + -er (“agent”).
Noun
[edit]sticker (plural stickers)
- Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
- 1918, Decisions of the Courts of Pennsylvania (Supreme, Superior and Common Pleas), in Workmen's Compensation Cases, page 158:
- […] and I said to Mr. McCauley, whatever is the matter with your neck, it is all swelled up, and he said he got it in the mill; he said he had an arm load of wool and a sticker stuck him in the neck, here (indicating the right hand side of the neck just below the jaw).
- 1982, Fernando Alegria, Fernando Alegría, Chilean Writers in Exile: Eight Short Novels:
- The prisoner fell flat on his face. They dragged him again, this time towards the grove of calafates. They lifted him up there and they threw him in the middle of the bushes. The boy screamed. Thousands of stickers pierced into his flesh.
- 2010, Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend, McFarland, →ISBN, page 212:
- When the prickly pear stickers pierced their paws they howled with pain, but they kept running. Sinopa, who hated the fighting, had followed her brothers. She shot a magic arrow over their heads, which pushed the brothers to safety, […]
- 2013, Cathy McDavid, Cowboy for Keeps, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 118:
- He toppled backward, landing on a particularly large cholla and crying out as hundreds of stickers pierced his flesh.
- One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
- 1930, The Strand Magazine, volume 80, page 321:
- He's a sticker. He was a goer to the end in all he did — and in Rugger outstandingly […]
- An adhesive label or decal.
- A price tag.
- (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).
- When buying a car, know the sticker and the invoice price.
- (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
- (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
- (colloquial, dated) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- "That's what I call a sticker for Wagg!"
- A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation and to create a gap so the unit can be picked up with a forklift (also kiln sticker).
- (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
- A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
- (US, politics) A paster.
- (military slang, World War I– World War II, if not earlier) A bayonet.[1]
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]something that sticks
adhesive label or decal
|
brand, label, or company
price tag — see price tag
wooden strip
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
|
References
[edit]- “sticker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sticker”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “sticker” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
Verb
[edit]sticker (third-person singular simple present stickers, present participle stickering, simple past and past participle stickered)
- To apply one or more stickers to (something).
- 2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan[2]:
- A tattooed camp staffer DJs from a heavily stickered laptop, next to a whirling party light that scatters rainbow beams throughout the space.
- To mark as the sticker price
- 2009 February 28, Rita Zekas, “DecoRita visits West Elm”, in Toronto Star[3]:
- Also out of Africa: a huge hammered copper floor mirror stickered at $449.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From stick (“sticky”, adjective) + -er (“comparative”).
Adjective
[edit]sticker
- (nonstandard, informal) comparative form of stick: more stick (stickier).
- A sticker type of glue that always stays sticky.
References
[edit]- ^ Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech[1], volume 47, number 1/2, page 107
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English sticker.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sticker m (plural stickers, diminutive stickertje n)
- sticker (adhesive decal)
- Synonym: plakplaatje
Derived terms
[edit]Hunsrik
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]sticker
- about, approximately
- Ich will sticker zwanzich Epple.
- I want about twenty apples.
Further reading
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sticker m (plural stickers or sticker)
Swedish
[edit]Verb
[edit]sticker
Categories:
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɪkə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɪkə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English terms suffixed with -er
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Internet
- English informal terms
- English colloquialisms
- English dated terms
- en:Music
- American English
- en:Politics
- English military slang
- en:World War I
- en:World War II
- English verbs
- English non-lemma forms
- English comparative adjectives
- English nonstandard terms
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɪkər
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɪkər/2 syllables
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Hunsrik 2-syllable words
- Hunsrik terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hunsrik lemmas
- Hunsrik adverbs
- Hunsrik terms with usage examples
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ikeɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/ikeɾ/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish nouns with multiple plurals
- Spanish terms spelled with K
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Swedish non-lemma forms
- Swedish verb forms