[Str. pa. pple. of STICK v.]
1. Of an animal: That has been stabbed or had its throat cut: = STICKED1 b. Chiefly in proverbial phrase, to stare like a stuck pig.
1702. Yalden, Æsop at Court, iii. 29. Like a stuck pig the woman star’d.
1731–8. Swift, Pol. Conversat., II. 162.
1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, II. i. Ask for the rent-roll,—see how they’ll look! stare like stuck pigs!
1812. Sporting Mag., XL. 66. Bleeding like a stuck pig.
1874. Burnand, My Time, xxiii. 210. Staring at you … as if he was a stuck pig.
2. Unable to go further. Cf. STICKIT a. 2.
1885. Revol. in Shorthand, 7. I studied Pitman’s system … for three or four months, but became a ‘stuck’ student.
1910. D. W. Bone, Brassbounder, 3. We come from our first voyage sick of it all…. Would give up but for pride…. Afraid to be called ‘stuck sailors.’
3. slang. (See quot.)
1865. Slang Dict., 249. Stuck, moneyless.
4. Joinery. (Cf. STICK v. 18 c.)
1850. Ogilvie, Stuck mouldings. In arch., mouldings formed by the planes instead of being wrought by the hand.
1910. C. H. Gregory, Gloss. Build. Constr., 64. Stuck Moulding. A moulding worked on the stuff itself.
