stickler

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• UK: /ˈstɪk.lə/
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• CMU ARPABET: S T IH1 K AH0 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: S T IH1 K L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English stighteler, stytelere, equivalent to stickle + -er. The judges at Cornish wrestling matches do indeed carry sticks which serve for signalling and as a badge of their office. This practice has evolved from holding swords and then swordsticks.

28 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: привърженик (privǎrženik) — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Catalan: perepunyetes — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Czech: hnidopich — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Czech: pedant — someone who insistently advocates for something
• French: tatillon — someone who insistently advocates for something
• French: pointilleux — someone who insistently advocates for something
• German: Pedant — someone who insistently advocates for something
• German: Verfechter — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Greek: ψείρας (pseíras) — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Hungarian: szőrszálhasogató — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Hungarian: kukacoskodó — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Hungarian: szőröző — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Hungarian: valamin lovagoló (ember) — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Hungarian: pedáns — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Italian: pignolo — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Norwegian Bokmål: pedant — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Norwegian Bokmål: regelrytter — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Polish: pedant — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Polish: pedantka — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Russian: приве́рженец (privérženec) — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Russian: я́рый сторо́нник (járyj storónnik) — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Serbo-Croatian: sitničar — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Serbo-Croatian: cjepidlaka — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Serbo-Croatian: sitničavac — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Spanish: rigorista — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Spanish: tiquismiquis — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Spanish: pejiguero — someone who insistently advocates for something
• Swedish: pedant — someone who insistently advocates for something