stickum n.
(US)1. glue, cement.
 | Sth Wales Echo 14 Nov. 4/2: If you had some stamps with the gum stickum worn off [...] I could make ’em go with a little paste. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Cornishman 30 May 6/6: A Man in New York has recently died from licking an adhesive envelope. [...] The practice of so moistening the stickum is [...] very dangerous. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 13 Sept. 34/3: Didn’t you bring some stickum to mend that busted china? | |
| El Paso Herald (TN) 13 Feb. 7/2: If stickum plaster will stop a cut paw from bleeding it will also stop a burst water pipe. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Dundee Courier 7 May 4/4: What I would like to see them [i.e. the Post Office] do first is to put some better tasting stickum on the postage stamps. | |
| Montana Standard (MT) 4 Sept. 4/2: [headline] ‘New Stickum for Stamps’. | |
| Rendezvous with Fear 7: She’s the fly paper queen. Her old man invented stickum that flies like the taste of. | |
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| Permanent Midnight 114: Clasp my mouth around crisscrossed Scotch taped candies, trying to work one of my pointy molars underneath the stick’um. |
2. any viscous substance; also attrib.
| Dain Curse 162: His sunburned face was dingy without pinkness, and he had forgotten to put stickum on his hair. | |
| Minneapolis Sun. Trib. (MN) 7 Oct,. 76/4: This ‘stickum’ captures the female [...] a wingless insect. | |
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| They Walked Like Men 48: We used to shave them and give them facials and all of them wanted stickum on their hair [OED]. | |
| Down These Mean Streets (1970) 121: Mentally I compared my hair with my brothers’ hair. My face screwed up at the memory of the jillion tons of stickum hair oils splashed down in a vain attempt to make it like theirs. | |
| Philadelphia Enquirer 11 Nov. 22/3: The club’s leading receiver said he uses ‘stickum’ all the time. | |
| Akron Beacon Jrnl (OH) 22 Mat. 27/1: He will feel naked as a jaybird without stickum. | |
| Courier jrnl (Louisville KY) 15 Jan. 9/1: Hayes was known [...] for his excessive use of the gooey stuff known as stickum. | |
| Last Kind Words 28: She handed me a photo. There was a stickum note on the back with all the relevant info. |