Fickler vs Tickler - What's the difference?
fickler | tickler |
(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.
A person who or thing which amuses, tickles, excites.
A reminder.
:Put it in the tickler file for next week.
A latex condom that has additional protrusions, for enhancing the sexual pleasure of the user.
(dated) Something puzzling or difficult; a conundrum.
(US, dated, slang, business) A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.
(UK, dated) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
As an adjective fickler
is comparative of fickle.As a noun tickler is
a person who or thing which amuses, tickles, excites.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.
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fikelen, from .Verb
(fickl)tickler
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Noun
(en noun)- (Bartlett)