stickest

stickest

English

Etymology 1

stick +‎ -est

Verb

stickest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of stick
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!

   • 1787, William Jones, "Hitopadesa of Vishnusarman" (1787, aka "Hitopadesa of Vishnu Sarman"); repr. in Works (1807), Vol. 13, p. 8:

     […] alas! my child, by not passing the night wisely in reading, when thou art among the learned, thou stickest like a calf in the mud.

Etymology 2

From stick (“sticky”, adjective) +‎ -est (“superlative”).

Adjective

stickest

1. (nonstandard, informal) superlative form of stick: most stick (stickiest).

   What is the stickest kind of gum?

   What is the stickest tape to hold something up with?

   What is the stickest thing on earth?

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Verb

stickest

1. second-person singular subjunctive I of sticken