be sticky about something Definition

sticky
adj stickier, stickiest

1. Covered with something that is tacky or gluey.
2. Able or likely to stick to other surfaces.

Thesaurus: viscous, gluey, adhesive, clinging, glutinous, gummy, syrupy; Antonym: dry.
3. Said of the weather: warm and humid; muggy.
4. colloq
Said of a situation, etc: difficult; awkward; unpleasant.

verb

stickies, stickied, stickying
1. To make something sticky.

Derivative: stickily
adverb

Derivative: stickiness
noun

Idiom: come to a sticky end (meet a sticky end)

colloq
To suffer an unpleasant end or death.

Idiom: be sticky about something

To act in an awkward, sometimes unpredictable, way over it.
Example: She can be a bit sticky about who she gives the keys to