sticky n.
1. sealing wax.
Paved with Gold 267: One, who hawked ‘kite’ and ‘sticky’ (paper and wax) as an excuse for begging, was telling another, who was a cadger, which were the best houses to go to. | ||
(con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 217/2: I give below a vocabulary of their talk to each other: [...] Sticky .... Wax. | ||
Sl. Dict. |
2. sticking plaster.
DSUE (1984) 1154/2: late C.19–20. | ||
House-Surgeon 154: Bring me some more sticky and that pint of blood in the fridge [OED]. |
3. a sticky bun.
DSUE (8th edn) 1154/2: since the 1920s. |
4. sticky tape.
DSUE (8th edn) 1154/2: since late 1940s. |
5. (US gay) semen.
Queens’ Vernacular. |