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Dictionary Results for stickler:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

stickler
    n 1: someone who insists on something; "a stickler for
         promptness"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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