Stick In

Definition: Stick In

Stick In

Verb

1. Insert casually; "She slipped in a reference to her own work".

2. Introduce; "Insert your ticket here".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Stick In

Aphony

Stick in the throat.

Difficulty

Get into a scrape; Noun: bring a hornet's nest about one's ears; be put to one's shifts; flounder, boggle, struggle; not know which way to turn; (uncertain); perdre son Latin; stick at, stick in the mud, stick fast; come to a stand, come to a standstill, come to a deadlock; hold the wolf by the ears, hold the tiger by the tail.

Dislike

Cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick, render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble, disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the grain, go against the stomach; stick in the throat; make one's blood run cold; (give pain); pall.

Failure

Limp, halt, hobble, fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.

Insertion

Obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce; (make a hole).

Pain

Sicken, disgust, revolt, nauseate, disenchant, repel, offend, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the stomach, turn the stomach; make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on the ear; stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard; rankle, gnaw, corrode, horrify, appal, appall, freeze the blood; make the flesh creep, make the hair stand on end; make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold; make one shudder.

Resentment

Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.

Shortcoming

Break down, stick in the mud, collapse, flat out, come to nothing; fall through, fall to the ground; cave in, end in smoke, miss the mark, fail; lose ground; miss stays.

Taciturnity

Stick in one's throat.

Crosswords: Stick In

Woo-oo! You look like sex on a stick in that Frederick Montana getup (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Edward Villella, mid-air leap, in costume for his role as the Peppermint Stick in Tschaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" as performed by the New York City Ballet at City Center. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He had his knapsack on his back, his stick in his hand, and a rough, hard, tired, and fierce look in his eyes, as seen by the firelight

Joad waved his stick in negation when the plug was held out to him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "stick in": stick in one's throat ♦ stick in the mind ♦ stick in the mud ♦ stick in the throat ♦ To stick in one's gizzard. Additional references.

Albanian

këmbëngul (insist, persevere, persist). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غرز (batter, bog, drawing pin, impact, implant, jam, lodge, pike, plant, plunge, poke, push, sink, stab, stick, thrust). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стоя си вкъщи, лепя (agglutinate, glue, gum, hang, stick), прибавям (add, add in, add on, admix, affix, append, eke out, interpolate, join, put in, superadd, supplement, tack, tag, tail, tail on, take on, throw in). (various references)

Chinese 

扦 (graft), �' (insert, pierce, to interfere, to interpose, to take part in). (various references)

Czech

zasunout (slip, slip in, telescope), zabodnout, vrazit (Bury, poke, put, stick, strike, thrust), vpíchnout. (various references)

Finnish

tarttua kurkkuun (clutch a person'sperson's throat, grasp a person by the throat, stick in the throat), takertua kurkkuun (stick in the throat). (various references)

French

piquer (stab, sting, stitch), ficher. (various references)

German

hineinstecken (enclose, insert, insertion, plug in, plunge in, poke in, put in, slot in, to put in, to stick into), einstechen (engrave, groove, insert, Pierce, prick, puncture, put in, stab, stab to death), einkleben (paste into). (various references)

Greek 

νωθρόσ (indolent, laggard, languid, logy, lymphatic, poky, sluggardly, sluggish, stick in the mud). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תקע ב�'רו� ו (stick in one's throat), שמרן (conservative, stick in the mud, tory). (various references)

Hungarian

beszúr (foist, put in, to prick, to prod, to put in, to stick in). (various references)

Indonesian

memancangkan (embed, fasten). (various references)

Italian

impegnarsi seriamente, attaccare (adherence, affix, annex, append, assail, assault, attach, attack, become attached, begin, bind, catch on, cling, connect, engage, fasten, fix, foist, glue, hang, hitch, infect, lead off, link, pass on, pin, pitch into, plug in, put up, stick, strike, strike up, tie), affondare (embed, engulf, founder, go under, sink). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

杖�'携える (to carry a stick in one's hand). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つえ�'たずさえる (to carry a stick in one's hand). (various references)

Manx

keck 'sy phurt (non-starter, stick in the mud). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickstay inay.(various references)

Romanian

se împotmoli (beach, poach, settle in the mud, stick in the mud, swamp), intra într-o afacere murdarã (stick in the mud), încuiat (close, reserved, secrecy, slow witted, stick in the mud, stickler). (various references)

Russian 

увязнуть. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utaći, umetnuti (infix, inlay, insert, intercalate, interpolate, interpose, parenthesize, put in, sandwich, spatchcock). (various references)

Spanish

persona chapada a la antigua (fuddy-duddy, stick in the mud), atragantarse (gag, stick in one's throat). (various references)

Swedish

trög (blockish, dull, flat, inactive, inert, languid, languorous, lifeless, lumpish, obtuse, plodding, purblind, slow, slowcoach, sluggish, soggy, stick in the mud, stolid, tardy, unapt). (various references)

Turkish

sokuvermek (pop, pop in, slip into, tuck in). (various references)

Ukrainian

розхлябаний (stick in the mud), розтяпа (butter fingers, stick in the mud), відстала людина (stick in the mud), відсталий (back, backward, behindhand, benighted, retarded, stick in the mud, straggling, straggly, upstage). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: intis, knits, nicks, skint, snick, stick, stink, ticks, tikis.

-3 letters: cist, inks, inti, kins, kist, kits, knit, nick, nisi, nits, sick, sink, skin, skit, snit, tick, tics, tiki, tins.

-4 letters: cis, ick, ink, ins, its, kin, kit, nit, sic, sin, sit, ski, tic, tin, tis, tsk.

-5 letters: in, is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: kinetics, nitpicks, sticking, stickpin, tickings.

+2 letters: antistick, chinkiest, stickling, stickpins.

+3 letters: crinkliest, cytokinins, dyskinetic, finickiest, kinematics, kineticist, nightstick, nitpickers, panickiest, stickiness, strickling, trickiness, unsticking.

+4 letters: backbitings, backlisting, cytokinesis, finnickiest, kinesthetic, kineticists, misstricken, nightsticks, nitpickiest, outslicking, pigsticking, singlestick, stockpiling, thickenings, tricksiness.

+5 letters: antiblackism, blacklisting, kickstarting, locksmithing, sidetracking, singlesticks, stickinesses, ticklishness, trickinesses, trickishness, walkingstick.