sticky-outy

adjective

Sticking out; protruding.

Meanings

adjectivesticky-outy (comparative more sticky-outy, superlative most sticky-outy)

comparative more sticky-outy · superlative most sticky-outy

  1. humorousinformalSticking out; protruding.

    In Karl Shapiro's autobiography there's a picture of Shapiro sitting at a round table with some of his students, and one of his students is Ted Kooser. Ted Kooser is an agreeable-looking young man with sticky-outy ears […]

    2009, Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist, page 133

Origin

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