Stickler vs Tickler - What's the difference?
stickler | tickler |
*, 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
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 nouns the difference between stickler and tickler
is that stickler is a referee or adjudicator at a fight, wrestling match, duel, etc. who ensures fair play while tickler is a person who or thing which amuses, tickles, excites.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.
Anagrams
*tickler
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Bartlett)