different between sticky vs sodden

English

Etymology

From stick +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Adjective

sticky (comparative stickier, superlative stickiest)

1. Able or likely to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.

2. Potentially difficult to escape from.
   • 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian, 8 September 2014:

     Salmond studied medieval Scottish history as well as economics at university so he cannot say he has not had fair warning – it was even more turbulent and bloody than England at that time – and plenty of Scotland's kings and leaders came to a sticky end.

3. Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
   • 2008, Robert K. Fitts, Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball

     The baby was due in December and the hot, sticky August weather was making Jane uncomfortable.

4. (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.

5. (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.

6. (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
7. (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
8. (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.

9. Similar to a stick

Synonyms

• (able or likely to adhere): claggy, tenacious; see also Thesaurus:adhesive
• (hot, windless and humid): close, muggy, sultry; see also Thesaurus:muggy

Derived terms

• stickily
• stickiness
• sticky-backed plastic
• sticky bit
• sticky fingers
• sticky note
• sticky tape
• sticky wicket

Translations

See also

• tacky

Noun

sticky (plural stickies)

1. A sticky note, such as a post-it note.

   Her desk is covered with yellow stickies.

2. (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
3. (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
4. (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.

Translations

Verb

sticky (third-person singular simple present stickies, present participle stickying, simple past and past participle stickied)

1. (Internet, bulletin boards, transitive) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ?esoden, from Proto-Germanic *sudanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *seuþan? (“to seethe; boil”). Cognate with West Frisian sean, Dutch gezoden, German Low German saden, söddt,German gesotten, Swedish sjuden, Icelandic soðinn. More at seethe.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?.d?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?.d?n/

Adjective

sodden (comparative more sodden, superlative most sodden)

1. Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
   • 1810, James Millar (editor), Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume XII, 4th Edition, page 702,

     It is found, indeed, that meat, roa?ted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ?odden than when coal is employed for that purpo?e.

   • 1895 February, James Rodway, Nature's Triumph, The Popular Science Monthly, page 460,

     The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden.

   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

     A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
2. (archaic) Boiled.
   • c. 1569, Hugh Gough (translator), The Ofspring of the House of Ottomanno and Officers Pertaining to the Greate Turkes Court by Bartolomej Georgijevi?, London, Thomas Marshe, “The diuersities of their drinke,”^[2]

     The thirde [drynke] is of that kinde of hony named Pechmes, whiche is made of newe wine sodden, vntill the third parte be boyled awaye […]

   • 1596, Richard Johnson, The Most Famous History of the Seaven Champions of Christendome, London: Cuthbert Burbie, Chapter 14, p. 131,^[3]

     […] howe Almidor the blacke King of Moroco was sodden to death in a cauldrone of boyling leade and brimstone.
3. (figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, line 560,^[4]

     You whoreson sodden headed sheepes-face […]

   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene 1,^[5]

     […] thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no

     more brain than I have in mine elbows […]

   • 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, 1899, Reprint Edition, page 60,

     With this profession of faith, the doctor, who was an old jail-bird, and was more sodden than usual, and had the additional and unusual stimulus of money in his pocket, returned to his associate and chum in hoarseness, puffiness, redfacedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy.

   • 2010, Peter Hitchens, The Cameron Delusion, page 79,

     I would have done too, but alcohol makes me so ill that I couldn't (I mention this to make it clear that I don't claim any moral superiority over my more sodden colleagues).

4. (figuratively) Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance)
   • 1613, Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: Walter Burre, Act 5, Scene 1,^[6]

     Remoue and march, soft and faire Gentlemen, soft and faire: double your files, as you were, faces about. Now you with the sodden face, keepe in there […]

   • 1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Letter 49, pp. 444-445,^[7]

     Of the music-girls, many are pretty featured, but carry in every lineament, the signs of their lamentable vocation: sodden complexions, feebly glossed over by artificial daubings of the worst colour […]

Synonyms

• (soaked): dopping, waterlogged; see also Thesaurus:wet
• (boiled):
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (dull expression): blank, stonefaced

Derived terms

• soddenly
• soddenness
• tea-sodden football hooligan

Translations

Verb

sodden (third-person singular simple present soddens, present participle soddening, simple past and past participle soddened)

1. (transitive) To drench, soak or saturate.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.

2. (intransitive) To become soaked.

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Anagrams

• Seddon