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sticky-outy en · ADJ

Etymology

From stick out + -y.

Meanings

1. (humorous, informal) Sticking out; protruding.
   • In Karl Shapiro's autobiography there's a picture of Shapiro sitting at a round table with some of his students, and one of his students is Ted Kooser. Ted Kooser is an agreeable-looking young man with sticky-outy ears […] 2009, Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist, page 133:

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