"Tacky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lactean^, lacteous^, lactescent^, lactiferous^; emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous^. gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous^, ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous; sticky, tacky, gooey; slab, slabby^; lentous^, pituitous^; mucid^, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... lie flat on the glass with all parts smoothed out so that they will not be torn from their places as the plates revolve. The shellac should be tacky when the pieces of tinfoil are put ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics
... the nodding, black objects grew in size until the head, body, and four legs of a horse were clearly cut against the sky. A little later every crest was surmounted by the comical figure of a marsh-tacky. Then a few sheep came out of the hollows among the hills and browsed on the coarse grass near the cabin, as though they felt the loneliness of their situation so far removed from mankind. With the marsh-ponies, the sheep, the wild-fowls of the sound, and the ...
— Voyage of The Paper Canoe • N. H. Bishop
... answer: "What'd you say?— I sometimes worms terbaccy; But I'd druther plow sweet taters too, Dan to be a ole Town Tacky!" ...
— Negro Folk Rhymes - Wise and Otherwise: With a Study • Thomas W. Talley |
