sticky-uppy
English
Etymology
stick up + -y
Adjective
sticky-uppy (comparative more sticky-uppy, superlative most sticky-uppy)
- (informal) Sticking up or tending to stick up.
- 2007, Simmone Howell, Notes from the Teenage Underground, Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books, →ISBN, page 158:
- She'd cut her hair off. Like, all of it. What little was left had been dyed baby-chick yellow. It was thick and sticky-uppy like a shag rug.
- 2009 25 December, Russell T Davies, "The End of Time", part one of two-part special of Doctor Who, 00:18:00–00:18:15:
- Wilfred Mott: Right, he's tall and thin. Wears a brown suit. Maybe a blue suit. He's got a long brown coat. Modern sort of hair. All sticky-uppy. All right? Oh, and on page two, be on the lookout for a police box. Exactly like the old ones.
- 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:
- I stroke the whorl of fur between his ears, one sticky-uppy and one floppy.
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