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Stickler

Stickler Meaning & Definition
Stickler Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Stickler?

[n] someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"

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See Also | disciplinarian | martinet | moralist

Stickler In Webster's Dictionary

\Stic"kler\ (st[i^]k"kl[~e]r), n. [See {Stickle}, v. t.] One who stickles. Specifically: (a) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. [Obs.] Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. --Sir P. Sidney. Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise. --Dryden. (b) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony. The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II. --Swift.

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