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Meaning of sticky-up | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Sticking up or tending to stick up; sticky-uppy.

informal

Examples

“"There was a light in the painting-room window," he said, tremulously, "and a head with black sticky-up hair all round. Then it went away."”

“All of the Fairy Wrens (fourteen in number) have "sticky-up" tails[.]”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

sticky-uppy stictidaceous stictional stiddier stiddiest stiddy