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Stickler
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Stickler Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Stickler?
[n] someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Stickler: Related Terms | Find terms related to Stickler: 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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