sticky-up

English

Etymology

stick up +‎ -y

Adjective

sticky-up (comparative more sticky-up, superlative most sticky-up)

  1. (informal) Sticking up or tending to stick up; sticky-uppy.
    • 1919 August 16, The Weekly Times, Melbourne, page 50:
      "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."
    • 1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 196:
      All of the Fairy Wrens (fourteen in number) have "sticky-up" tails[.]
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