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Definition stickle
Etymology 1
From Middle English *stikel, *stykyl (in compounds), from Old English sticel (“a prickle, sting, goad”), from Proto-Germanic *stiklaz, *stikilaz (“sting, stinger, peak, cup, goblet”).
Noun
stickle (plural stickles)
Etymology 2
From Middle English stikel, from Old English sticel, sticol (“high, lofty, steep, reaching great heights, inaccessible”), from Proto-Germanic *stikulaz, *stikkulaz (“high, steep”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to stick; peak”).
Adjective
stickle (comparative more stickle, superlative most stickle)
- steep; high; inaccessible
- (Britain, dialectal) high, as the water of a river; swollen; sweeping; rapid
Noun
stickle (plural stickles)
- (Britain, dialectal) A shallow rapid in a river.
- (Britain, dialectal) The current below a waterfall.
Etymology 3
From a variant of stightle (“to order, arrange, direct”), from Middle English stightelen, sti?tlen, stihilen, stihlen, equivalent to stight (“to order, rule, govern”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
Verb
stickle (third-person singular simple present stickles, present participle stickling, simple past and past participle stickled)
- (obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
- (now rare) To argue or struggle for.
- To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
- (transitive, obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
- (transitive, obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
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