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stickler |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stickler \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stickler n : someone who insists on something "a stickler for promptness"
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