Fickler vs Sickler - What's the difference?
fickler | sickler |
(fickle)
Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable.
(figurative) changeable
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
To deceive; flatter.
To puzzle; perplex; nonplus.
One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
(medicine, informal) A person who has sickle-cell disease.
(Webster 1913)
As an adjective fickler
is comparative of fickle.As a noun sickler is
one who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.fickler
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Adjective
(head)fickle
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) fikil, fikil, from (etyl) {{term, ficol, , fickle, cunning, tricky , deceitful, lang=ang}}, equivalent to . More at (l).Adjective
(en-adj)- To the south, the vast geometrical deserts of Arabian nomads, a redoubt of feral movement, of fickle winds, of open space, of saddle leather—home to the wild Bedouin tribes.