stitch – English noun declension

English noun forms of stitch

Noun: stitch
Singularstitch
Pluralstitches

Sample Sentences

  • I cut myself badly while cooking and needed to go to hospital to get stitches.
  • cross stitch
  • herringbone stitch
  • I've got a stitch. I'm going to have to stop and rest.
  • After about fifteen minutes I got terrible stitch.
  • a stitch in the side
  • He was the next day taken with an oppreſſion, and as it ſeemed with a cold and with ſtitches, which was indeed a pluriſy. [a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, “Book III. Of the Rest of King Charles II’s Reign, from the Year 1673 to the Year 1685, in which He Died.”, in [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC, page 588:]
  • Violent continuous stitch in the region of the heart, the stitches multiplied when arresting the breathing. […] Feeling of heaviness in the muscles of the neck; he is obliged to bend his neck backwards. Cramp-like pain in right muscles of the neck, terminating in a stitch; the pain went off after motion and returned afterwards. […] Dull stitches in the region of the haunch-bones; pressure on the parts causes a simple pain. […] Drawing stitch in the right thigh, not perceptible when standing or ascending an elevation. [1848, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, New Manual; Or, Symptomen-codex, page 186 (1846, Samuel Hahnemann, Materia Medica Pura, page 73)]
  • A sharp stitch in the left side of the head, on sitting down […] A sharp stitch in the upper part of the right side of the head, […] [1878, Timothy Field Allen, The Encyclopedia of pure materia medica v. 8, 1878, page 291:]
  • drop a stitch
  • take up a stitch
  • [Y]ou have gone a good ſtitch, you may well be a weary; ſit down. [1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. From This World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. […], London: […] Nathaniel Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 148:]
  • to wet every stitch of clothes
  • She didn’t have a stitch (of clothing) on.
  • About DUNSTABLE they plow much in Stitches : and in Essex some very good Farmers practise this Method with very great Success; making five Stitches when they come to sow, which five make a Perch, so that between every two Stitches there is a Thorough a Foot wide. [1757, Thomas Hale, “Of Tillage”, in A compleat body of husbandry, page 241:]
  • "Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.] [1828, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume II, page 237:]
  • […]for your oxen choose Two males of nine years old, for then their use Is most available, since their strengths are then Not of the weakest, and the youthful mean Sticks in their nerves still; nor will these contend With skittish tricks, when they their stitch should end, To break their plough, and leave their work undone. [1875, George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations, page 224:]
  • I would go out tonight / But I haven't got a stitch to wear [1983, “This Charming Man”, Johnny Marr, Morrissey (lyrics), performed by The Smiths:]
  • More than 19,000 people commented, along with more stitches than she could count, Sallee said. [2023 May 31, Tatum Hunter, “On TikTok, women get real about the pitfalls of motherhood”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023:]
  • One answer that appeared in multiple comments and stitches was that women often think about the possibility of being victims of violence. [2023 September 20, Brittany Miller, “Women respond to viral TikTok prompt asking about ‘female version’ of male Roman Empire obsession”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2023:]
  • The stitches, as they are called on TikTok, nearly always end in agreement that Ms. Vidal was right — store-bought pesto is indeed an inferior product. [2023 October 24, Remy Tumin, “She Made Pesto. People Started Spilling Their Secrets.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2023:]
  • Now plow down your Weat-stitches, by running the Two-wheel Fallow-Plough three or four times through each Stitch, which will almost level the Ground; [1750, William Ellis, “Of Plowings preparatory for Sofing Lent Crops of Grain, &c. in Chilturn Grounds”, in The Modern Husbandman - Volume 4, page 42:]
  • If you talke / Or pull your face into a ſtich againe, / As I love truth I ſhall be very angry. [1609–1612, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Captaine”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 54, column 2:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English stiche, from Old English stiċe (“a prick, puncture, stab, thrust with a pointed implement, pricking sensation, stitch, pain in the side, sting”), from Proto-West Germanic *stiki, from Proto-Germanic *stikiz (“prick, piercing, stitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to stab, pierce”).
2. Cognate with Dutch steek (“prick, stitch”), German Stich (“a prick, piercing, stitch”), Old English stician (“to stick, stab, pierce, prick”). More at stick. Via PIE cognate with Czech steh, Polish ścieg, Russian стежо́к (stežók). See: Middle English Nouns 'stiche', Old English Nouns 'stiċe', Dutch Nouns 'steek', German Nouns 'Stich', Old English Nouns 'stician', Czech Nouns 'steh', Polish Nouns 'ścieg'.

Verbs referencing "stitch"

Italian Nouns stucco, German Nouns Stich, Czech Nouns steh.