adj
Meaning 1
Steep; high; inaccessible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
stickle
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UK: /ˈstɪk(ə)l/
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rhymes with -ɪkəl
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CMU ARPABET: S T IH1 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
High, as the water of a river; swollen; sweeping; rapid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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name
Meaning 3
A surname.
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noun
Meaning 4
A sharp point; prickle; a spine
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noun
Meaning 5
A shallow rapid in a river.
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Usage: UK, dialectal
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noun
Meaning 6
The current below a waterfall.
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Usage: UK, dialectal
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verb
Meaning 7
To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
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Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 8
To argue or struggle for.
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Usage: UK, archaic, dialectal
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verb
Meaning 9
To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
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Usage: UK, dialectal
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verb
Meaning 10
To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
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Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 11
To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
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Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 12
To separate combatants by intervening.
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Usage: UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 13
To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
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Usage: UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 14
dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: argue, contend, debate, fence
History
Etymology
From Middle English stikel, from Old English sticel, sticol (“high, lofty, steep, reaching great heights, inaccessible”), from Proto-Germanic *stikulaz, *stikkulaz (“high, steep”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to stick; peak”).
From the German surname, Americanized from Stickel.
From Middle English *stikel, *stykyl (in compounds), from Old English sticel (“a prickle, sting, goad”), from Proto-Germanic *stiklaz, *stikilaz (“sting, stinger, peak, cup, goblet”), related to the verb *stikaną (“to stick”). Cognate with Dutch stekel, Icelandic stikill, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃 (stikls) (whence Russian стекло́ (stekló, “glass”), Polish szkło (“glass”), Lithuanian sti̇̀klas, Romanian sticlă).
From a variant of stightle (“to order, arrange, direct”), from Middle English stightelen, stiȝtlen, stihilen, stihlen, equivalent to stight (“to order, rule, govern”) + -le (frequentative suffix). For the development of /təl/ to /kəl/, compare huckleberry and dialectal turkle (“turtle”).