stik

From the verb stikke (“jab, stab”).

stik

1. a stab or jab
2. an electrical plug

   Træk stikket ud af stikkontakten.

   Pull the plug out of the socket.

3. (card games) a trick

   Han tog det sidste stik med et trumfkort.

   He took the last trick with a trump card.

4. a hitch (knot used to fasten a rope to a rigid object)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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• Rhymes: -ɪk
• IPA^(key): /stɪk/

stik

1. inflection of stikken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

stik

1. (Netherlands) drat, darn; Used as an expression of frustration, if something doesn't work out as expected. It is a rather innocent, child-friendly curse.

   Stik, alweer ernaast!

   Drat, missed again!

• kist

stik (plural stikkes)

1. Alternative form of stikke

From English the sticks.

stik

1. bush; rainforest

From Middle Dutch stic, variant of stuc, from Old Dutch *stukki, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją.

stik n (plural stikn, diminutive stiksje)

1. part
2. piece, fragment, component

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

stik n (plural stikken, diminutive stikje)

1. part
2. piece, fragment, component
3. performance, play, number

   Richard III is in stik fan William Shakespeare.

   Richard III is a play by Shakespeare.

• “stik (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011