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Definition: Stickle |
StickleVerb1. Dispute or argue stubbornly, esp. minor points. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stickle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Barter | Bargain; drive a bargain, make a bargain; negotiate, bid for; haggle, higgle; dicker; chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down; stickle, stickle for; out bid, under bid; ask, charge; strike a bargain; (contract). |
Contention | Compete with, cope with, vie with, race with; outvie, emulate, rival; run a race; contend; for, stipulate for, stickle for; insist upon, make a point of. |
Obstinacy | Verb: be obstinate; Adjective: stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of facts; opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a belief; have one's own way; (will); persist; (persevere) a; have the last word, insist on having the last word. |
Unwillingness | Demur, stick at, scruple, stickle; hang fire, run rusty; recoil, shrink, swerve; hesitate; avoid. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stickle |
| English words defined with "stickle": Stickled, Stickling. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "stickle": stickleback. (references) |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "stickle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stickle | Last name | 400 | 21,209 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "stickle": stickle with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stickle | 11 |
stickle brick | 7 |
back stickle | 3 |
back fish stickle | 2 |
brick stickle toy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stickle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngul këmbë (insist, labor, labour), kundërshtoj (censure, challenge, combat, condemn, contest, contradict, controvert, counter, cross, demur, deprecate, discountenance, discourage, dispute, flout, fly in the face of, gainsay, impugn, kick, mind, object, oppose, oppugn, protest, react, rebel, rebuke, rebut, recalcitrate, refuse, resist, retort, set one's face against, stick to, Stonewall, take exception to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كابر (insist, profess), ألح (insist, press, urge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | проявявам упорство, имам скрупули (stick at). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vortemælk (bracken, euphorbia, Poinsettia, stickle spurge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sirppityräkki (stickle spurge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | insister sur (stress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verfechten (advocate, champion, defend, maintain, take up, to advocate, to stickle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φιλονικώ επιμονώσ διά μικροπράγματα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scannacavallo (stickle spurge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icklestay ver só dificuldades, dificultar (complicate, embarrass, encumber, hamper, hinder, impede, interfere, thwart), criar dificuldades. (various references) сомневаться (disbelieve, doubt, hang in doubt, hang in the balance, hesitate, misdoubt, question, scruple, tremble in the balance), возражать (answer, controvert, demur, deprecate, except, mind, object, objected, objecting, oppugn, reclaim, retort, take exception to, take objection, talk back, traverse). (various references) åkertörel (stickle spurge). (various references) titiz davranmak (split hairs), tereddüd etmek (balk at, be vague about smth., dither, falter, halt, hesitate, oscillate, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, stagger, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wobble, yaw), pürüz çıkarmak, inat etmek (balk, balk at, baulk, be obstinate, persist, recalcitrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Euphorbia falcata L.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stickle": stickleback, sticklebacks, stickled, stickler, sticklers, stickles. (additional references) | |
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"Stickle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sticke, stickly, Stokeley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stickle" (pronounced sti"kul) |
| 5 | -t i" k u l | tickle. |
| 4 | -i" k u l | brickle, fickle, Mickle, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, pickle, sickle, trickle. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, buckle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fecal, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, inimical, ironical, jackal, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, skeptical, sociological, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, tinkle, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tickles. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: likest, sickle, stelic, tickle. | |
-2 letters: ceils, celts, cesti, cites, clits, islet, istle, kilts, kites, licks, likes, skite, slice, slick, stick, stile, telic, ticks, tikes, tiles. | |
-3 letters: ceil, cels, celt, cist, cite, clit, elks, etic, ices, ilks, isle, kilt, kist, kite, kits, leis, leks, lest, lets, lice, lick, lies, like, list, lite, lits, sect. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ficklest, luckiest, micklest, slickest, stickled, stickler, stickles, strickle, ticklers, trickles. | |
+2 letters: blockiest, blueticks, chalkiest, checklist, clunkiest, flockiest, hackliest, livestock, pluckiest, sickliest, skeptical, sketchily, sticklers, sticklike, stockpile, strickled, strickles. | |
+3 letters: alkahestic, backlisted, checklists, clerkliest, cockatiels, crackliest, crinkliest, freckliest, interlocks, knuckliest, lipsticked, livestocks, outslicked, prickliest, skeletonic, stockpiled, stockpiler, stockpiles, ticketless, trickliest, trucklines, unluckiest. | |
+4 letters: blacklisted, blacklister, bootlickers, candlestick, fiddlestick, lickspittle, littlenecks, ostrichlike, politickers, rickettsial, singlestick, skeptically, stickhandle, stickleback, stockpilers. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Names: Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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