stuck

See also: Stuck, stück, and Stück

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈstʌk/

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• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /stʊk/
• Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

Verb

stuck

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

Adjective

stuck (comparative more stuck, superlative most stuck)

1. Unable to move.

   Synonyms: static, unmovable; see also Thesaurus:immobile

   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.

   Synonyms: broke, penniless; see also Thesaurus:impoverished

Derived terms

• bleed like a stuck hog
• bleed like a stuck pig
• get stuck in
• get stuck into
• like a stuck pig
• squeal like a stuck pig
• stare like a stuck pig
• stuck in a rut
• stuck in one's ways
• stuck in the mud
• stuck in the Stone Age
• stuck like Chuck
• stuck on
• stuck on oneself
• stuck pixel
• stuck record
• stuck twin syndrome
• stuck up
• stuck-up

 

Translations

trapped and unable to move

• Arabic: عَالِق (ʕāliq)

  Hijazi Arabic: عَالِق (ʕālig), مَعْزُوق (maʕzūg), مَحْشُور (maḥšūr)

• 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), atollado (es) m, atorado (es) m
• Swedish: fast (sv)
• Thai: ค้าง (th) (káang), ติด (th) (dtìt), คา (th) (kaa)
• Tày: cà, cạng
• Ukrainian: застря́глий (zastrjáhlyj)
• Walloon: astok (wa)

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)
• Tày: cạng

References

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

Etymology 2

Compare stoccado.

Noun

stuck (plural stucks)

1. (obsolete) A thrust, especially with a lance or sword.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), 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, [Act IV, scene vii], line 160:

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

     See Wikisource

References

• “stuck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• suckt, tucks