stickest

English

Etymology 1

stick +‎ -est

Verb

stickest

  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative 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, [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?

German

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Verb

stickest

  1. second-person singular subjunctive I of sticken
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