Stickler

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "stickler":
     Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler,
     arrogator, ass, autarch, autocrat, bigot, bitter-ender, bullethead,
     caesar, captious critic, commissar, czar, despot, dictator,
     diehard, disciplinarian, dogmatist, donkey, driver, duce, fanatic,
     hard master, hardnose, intransigeant, intransigent, last-ditcher,
     martinet, maverick, mule, nitpicker, oligarch, oppressor,
     perfectionist, perverse fool, pharaoh, pighead, positivist,
     precisian, precisianist, purist, slave driver, standpat,
     standpatter, tyrant, usurper, warlord