stickle
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪkəl
Etymology 1
From Middle English *stikel, *stykyl (in compounds), from Old English sticel (“a prickle, sting, goad”), from Proto-Germanic *stiklaz, *stikilaz (“sting, stinger, peak, cup, goblet”).
Noun
stickle (plural stickles)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English stikel, from Old English sticel, sticol (“high, lofty, steep, reaching great heights, inaccessible”), from Proto-Germanic *stikulaz, *stikkulaz (“high, steep”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to stick; peak”).
Adjective
stickle (comparative more stickle, superlative most stickle)
Noun
stickle (plural stickles)
- (UK, dialect) A shallow rapid in a river.
- (UK, dialect) The current below a waterfall.
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- Patient anglers, standing all the day / Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay.
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Etymology 3
From a variant of stightle (“to order, arrange, direct”), from Middle English stightelen, stiȝtlen, stihilen, stihlen, equivalent to stight (“to order, rule, govern”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
Verb
stickle (third-person singular simple present stickl, present participle ing, simple past and past participle stickled)
- (obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
- (now rare) To argue or struggle for.
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
- ‘She has other people than poor little you to think about, and has gone abroad with them; so you needn’t be in the least afraid she’ll stickle this time for her rights.’
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
- To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- Miserable new Berline! Why could not Royalty go in some old Berline similar to that of other men? Flying for life, one does not stickle about his vehicle.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- (transitive, obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
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- Which [question] violently they pursue, / Nor stickled would they be.
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- (transitive, obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
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- They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.
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- (intransitive, obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.
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- When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God’s host and the race of fiends.
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- (intransitive, obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
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- Fortune, as she’s wont, turned fickle, / And for the foe began to stickle.
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- for paltry punk they roar and stickle
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “stickle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “stickle”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “stickle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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