stuck

See also: Stuck and Stück

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈstʌk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

Verb

stuck

1. simple past tense and past participle of stick (archaic sticked)

Adjective

stuck (comparative more stuck, superlative most stuck)

1. Unable to move.

   Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck.

   If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.

2. Unable to progress with a task.

   I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.

3. No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.

   There are several ways to close a stuck program.

4. (slang, archaic) In the situation of having no money.

Derived terms

• stuck on

Translations

trapped and unable to move

• Catalan: encallat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡住 (zh) (kǎzhù), 卡 (zh) (kǎ)

• Finnish: jumissa (fi)
• French: bloqué (fr), coincé (fr)
• German: eingeklemmt (de), festgeklemmt (de)
• Italian: intrappolato (it), bloccato (it)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: fīxus
• Polish: zaklinowany
• Portuguese: preso (pt)
• Romanian: înțepenit (ro)
• Russian: застря́вший (ru) (zastrjávšij)
• Spanish: atascado (es), atrapado (es), pegado (es)
• Swedish: fast (sv)
• Thai: ค้าง (th) (káang), ติด (th) (dtìt), คา (th) (kaa)

unable to progress

• Catalan: encallat
• Finnish: jumissa (fi)
• German: festgefahren (de), festgesetzt (de)
• Italian: ostruito (it), bloccato (it), inceppato (it)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: utknąć (pl) pf (verb)
• Spanish: atascado (es)
• Swedish: fast (sv)
• Thai: ค้าง (th) (káang)

References

• (having no money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 2

Compare stoccado.

Noun

stuck (plural stucks)

1. (obsolete) A thrust.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene vii], line 160:

     If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.

     See Wikisource

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stuck” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• suckt, tucks