stick
noun
[ stɪk ]
• a thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree.
Similar:
piece of wood,
twig,
small branch,
cane,
pole,
beanpole,
post,
stake,
upright,
rod,
• a long, thin piece of something.
• "a stick of dynamite"
• a threat of punishment or unwelcome measures (often contrasted with the offer of reward as a means of persuasion).
• "training that relies more on the carrot than on the stick"
• rural areas far from cities or civilization.
• "he felt hard done by living out in the sticks"
Similar:
the country,
the countryside,
the provinces,
rural districts,
the backwoods,
the back of beyond,
the wilds,
the hinterland,
a backwater,
the backcountry,
the backland,
the backblocks,
the booay,
the backveld,
the platteland,
the middle of nowhere,
the boondocks,
the boonies,
the tall timbers,
hicksville,
Woop Woop,
beyond the black stump,
• a person of a specified kind.
• "Janet's not such a bad old stick sometimes"
• a large quantity of unsold stock, especially the proportion of shares which must be taken up by underwriters after an unsuccessful issue.
Origin:
Old English sticca ‘peg, stick, spoon’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch stek ‘cutting from a plant’ and German Stecken ‘staff, stick’.
stick
verb
• push a sharp or pointed object into or through (something).
• "he stuck his fork into the sausage"
Similar:
thrust,
push,
insert,
jab,
dig,
plunge,
ram,
force,
poke,
prod,
• insert, thrust, or push.
• "a youth with a cigarette stuck behind one ear"
• adhere or cling to something.
• "the plastic seats stuck to my skin"
Similar:
adhere,
cling,
be fixed,
be glued,
remain,
stay,
linger,
dwell,
persist,
continue,
last,
endure,
Opposite:
be forgotten,
• be fixed in a particular position or unable to move or be moved.
• "Sara tried to open the window but it was stuck"
• accept or tolerate (an unpleasant or unwelcome person or situation).
• "I can't stick Geoffrey—he's a real old misery"
Similar:
tolerate,
put up with,
take,
stand (for),
accept,
stomach,
swallow,
endure,
bear,
support,
brook,
submit to,
take something lying down,
thole,
abide,
wear,
be doing with,
suffer,
Origin:
Old English stician, of Germanic origin; related to German sticken ‘embroider’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek stizein ‘to prick’, stigma ‘a mark’ and Latin instigare ‘spur on’. Early senses included ‘pierce’ and ‘remain fixed (by its embedded pointed end’).
