sticky-up

adj

adj

Etymology From stick up + -y.

Informal Sticking up or tending to stick up; sticky-uppy.

"There was a light in the painting-room window," he said, tremulously, "and a head with black sticky-up hair all round. Then it went away."1919 August 16, The Weekly Times, Melbourne, page 50:
All of the Fairy Wrens (fourteen in number) have "sticky-up" tails[.]1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 196:

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