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Definition of Stickler
1. Noun. Someone who insists on something. "A stickler for promptness"
Definition of Stickler
1. n. One who stickles.
Definition of Stickler
1. Noun. (context: now only Cornwall) A referee or adjudicator at a fight, wrestling match etc who ensures fair play. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
2. Noun. Someone who insistently advocates (term for) something. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stickler
1. one that stickles [n -S] - See also: stickles
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stickler
Literary usage of Stickler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"stickler, *. A person who attended upon combatants, in trials of skill, to part
them when they had fought enough, and doubtless to see fair play. ..."
2. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1839)
"Believe me, Scott, no man of real genius was ever a puritanical stickler for
correctness, or fastidious about any faults except his own. ..."
3. Proceedings by National Baptist Educational Convention (1872)
"... apparently a very great stickler for order. There will not be very much
disorder—none at all, I think—if the boys love their teachers. ..."
4. Calendar of Wills on File and Recorded in the Offices of the Clerk of the by Berthold Fernow, New York (State). Court of Appeals, New York (State). Secretary's Office (1896)
"Witnesses Cornelius I. Bogert, John Buxton and John stickler! of NY City, cord-
wainer. Recorded ut supra, p. 103. Octbr. 26 Ward, NY City. ..."
5. Children's Ways: Being Selections from the Author's "Studies of Chidhood by James Sully (1907)
"The Young stickler for the Proprieties. I believe that those who know young
children will agree with me that they show an instinctive respect for what is ..."
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