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Boggle vs Stickle - What's the difference?

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Boggle is a synonym of stickle.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between boggle and stickle

is that boggle is (obsolete) to play fast and loose; to dissemble while stickle is (obsolete) to contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.

As verbs the difference between boggle and stickle

is that boggle is to be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused while stickle is (obsolete) to act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.

As a noun stickle is

(uk|dialect) a shallow rapid in a river.

boggle

English

Verb

(boggl)
  • To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
  • He boggled at the surprising news.
    The mind boggles .
  • * Barrow
  • Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose.
  • * Glanvill
  • We start and boggle at every unusual appearance.
  • To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
  • The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
    The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike.
  • (US, dialect) To embarrass with difficulties; to bungle or botch.
  • (obsolete) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
  • (Howell)

    Derived terms

    * mindboggling

    stickle

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
  • 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.’
  • To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
  • (obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
  • * Drayton
  • Which [question] violently they pursue, / Nor stickled would they be.
  • (obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.
  • (obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.
  • * Dryden
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
  • * Hudibras
  • Fortune, as she's wont, turned fickle, / And for the foe began to stickle .
  • * Dryden
  • for paltry punk they roar and stickle
  • * Hazlitt
  • the obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A shallow rapid in a river.
  • (UK, dialect) The current below a waterfall.
  • * W. Browne
  • Patient anglers, standing all the day / Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay.

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