Stickle Definition
stĭkəl
stickled, stickles, stickling
verb
To raise objections, haggle, or make difficulties, esp. in a stubborn, narrow manner and usually about trifles.
Webster's New World
To argue or contend stubbornly, especially about trivial or petty points.
American Heritage
To have objections; scruple (at)
Webster's New World
Dryden.
For paltry punk they roar and stickle.
Wiktionary
Hazlitt.
The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong.
Wiktionary
noun
Origin of Stickle
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Variant of Middle English stightlen to contend frequentative of stighten to arrange from Old English stihtian, stihtan steigh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Variant of stightle.
From Wiktionary
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