Short Lists

Thanks to those who made suggestions for last week's Short List (towns in different countries with similar sounding names).

Onus Probandy now submits this teaser:

"A famous old joke: "What's brown and sticky? A stick".

Ha ha. Now, this joke relies on a special property of the word "stick" and the adjective "sticky". Normally, that "y" suffix to a noun makes the adjective mean "like the noun"; but in the case of stick it has a secondary meaning, making the joke possible.

The short list I'm after (and I have no definitive answers) is the list of words that share this property. They don't have to be funny. e.g. "What's white and cloudy? A cloud" would not qualify, because the adjective means "noun-y". "

I guess it's the sort of thing that will drive you mad if you actively try and think of one - by going through every adjective ending with "y" and working backwards - but maybe one or two will spring to mind.

PS, £-s-d stands for "pounds, shillings and pence" and can also be pronounced "LSD", not to be confused with lysergic acid diethylamide, of course.