stickperson

English

Etymology

Compound of stick +‎ person.

Noun

stickperson (plural stickpersons or stickpeople)

1. A stick figure.
   • 1995, Suzann Ledbetter, I Have Everything I Had Twenty Years Ago, Except Now Itʼs All Lower, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 146:

     During my tomboyish childhood, I could eat anything I wanted without plumping my stickperson frame one whit. But during high school, my figure took on "chunky" proportions before I realized the old metabolism wasn't what it used to be. Somehow, puberty had changed my internal calorie combustion engine into a long-term fat-storage unit.