Stickler vs Strickler - What's the difference?
stickler | strickler |
*, 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
* Dryden
Someone who insistently advocates (for) something.
:Lexicographers are stickler s for correct language.
* Jonathan Swift
As nouns the difference between stickler and strickler
is that stickler is a referee or adjudicator at a fight, wrestling match, duel, etc. who ensures fair play while strickler is alternative form of strickle.stickler
English
Noun
(en noun)- Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey.
- Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, / First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
- The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II.
