a. Sc. Also sticket. [Sc. form of STICKED ppl. a.]
1. Of a task, a product of labor: Imperfect or bungled, unfinished.
1787. W. Taylor, Scots Poems, 60 (E.D.D.). Dad force’t her to marry Rob, Whilk surely maks a stickit job.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xxxv. But I’ll uphaud it for nae stickit job.
2. Qualifying a personal designation of trade or profession: That has relinquished his intended calling from want of ability or means to pursue it.
1815. Scott, Guy M., ii. Upon his first attempt, he [Sampson] became totally incapable of proceeding in his intended discourse,… and was ever after designated as a ‘stickit minister.’
1837. Hogg, Tales & Sk., III. 62. ‘I canna get her keepit a minute,’ said Geordie, ‘for that stickit shopkeeper.’
1871. W. Alexander, Johnny Gibb, ix. 70. Sandy disappointed the hopes of his friends by changing his mind, and turning out a kind of ‘sticket doctor.’
