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sticky-note

noun

Etymology

* A modern (post-1962) formation from sticky + note.

  1. derived from *newd-✻ — “to acquire, make use of”
  2. inherited from *nutō✻ — “enjoyment, utilisation”
  3. inherited from *notu✻
  4. inherited from notu — “use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”
  5. inherited from note — “use, usefulness, profit”
  6. compounded as sticky-note — “sticky + note”

Definitions

  1. A small sheet of paper from a padded stack, with each sheet of the pad consisting of a…

    A small sheet of paper from a padded stack, with each sheet of the pad consisting of a strip of nonpermanent adhesive on the reverse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sticky-note. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA