stickler English
Noun
( en noun)
*, II.27:
*:In ancient time they were wont to employ third persons as sticklers , to see no treachery or disorder were used, and to beare witnes of the combates successe.
* Sir Philip Sidney
- Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey.
* Dryden
- Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, / First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
Someone who insistently advocates (for) something.
:Lexicographers are stickler s for correct language.
* Jonathan Swift
- The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II.
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stickled English
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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
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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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