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stickler
(encz) | stickler,detailista n: Zdeněk Brož |
stickler
(encz) | stickler,puntičkář n: Zdeněk Brož |
Stickler
(gcide) | Stickler \Stic"kler\ (st[i^]k"kl[~e]r), n. [See Stickle, v.
t.]
One who stickles. Specifically:
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(a) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a
second; an umpire. [Obs.]
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Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and
trumpets whom the others should obey. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war,
First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
--Dryden.
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(b) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things,
as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate
contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
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The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers
against the exorbitant proceedings of King James
II. --Swift.
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stickler
(wn) | stickler
n 1: someone who insists on something; "a stickler for
promptness" |
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Stickler
(gcide) | Stickler \Stic"kler\ (st[i^]k"kl[~e]r), n. [See Stickle, v.
t.]
One who stickles. Specifically:
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(a) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a
second; an umpire. [Obs.]
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Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and
trumpets whom the others should obey. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war,
First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
--Dryden.
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(b) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things,
as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate
contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
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The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers
against the exorbitant proceedings of King James
II. --Swift.
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