stickum

/ˈstɪkəm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English

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noun

Canadian usage; American usage; Countable; Informal; Uncountable

"A strip of muslin swaddles his privates, fixed by means of pine stickum to his belly and buttocks."
"He had sat next to Cindy returning from the Y and smelled the chlorine on her. A sodden Band-Aid had clung by a few lingering bits of stickum to her knee."

From stick + variant of 'em, him.

stickums (plural)

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How do you pronounce stickum?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈstɪkəm/.

What does stickum mean?

Where does stickum come from?

From stick + variant of 'em, him.

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