English-Thai Dictionary

stickle

VI ยืนกราน ใน ความคิด ของ ตนเอง 

 

stickle at

PHRV ยืนกราน ใน  ยึด แน่น กับ  yuan-kran-nai

 

stickleback

N ปลา พวก  Gasterosteidae มี ขนาดเล็ก  มี หนาม บริเวณ หลัง 

 

stickler

N ความยุ่งยาก  ผู้ ยึดติด  kwam-yung-yak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STICKLE

v.i.[from the practice of prize-fighters, who placed seconds with staves or sticks to interpose occasionally. ] 1. To take part with one side or other.
Fortune, as she wont, turnd fickle, and for the foe began to stickle.
2. To contend; to contest; to altercate. Let the parties stickle each for his favority doctrine.
3. To trim; to play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other.

 

STICKLE

v.t.To arbitrate. [Not in use. ]

 

STICKLE-BACK

n.A small fish of the genus Gasterosteus, of several species. The common species seldom grows to the length of two inches.

 

STICKLER

n. 1. A sidesman to fencers; a second to a duelist; one who stands to a judge a combat.
Basilius the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey.
2. An obstinate contender about any thing; as a stickler for the church of for liberty.
The tory or high church clergy were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of king James.
3. Formerly, an officer who cut wood for the priory of Ederose, within the kings parks of Clarendon.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STICKLE

Stic "kle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stickling. ]Etym: [Probably fr. OE. stightlen, sti, to dispose, arrange, govern, freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf. G. stiften to found, to establish. ]

 

1. To separate combatants by intervening. [Obs. ] When he [the angel ] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends. Dryden.

 

2. To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds. Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle. Hudibras.While for paltry punk they roar and stickle. Dryden. The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong. Hazlitt.

 

3. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.

 

STICKLE

STICKLE Stic "kle, v. t.

 

1. To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants. [Obs. ] Which [question ] violently they pursue, Nor stickled would they be. Drayton.

 

2. To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate. [Obs. ] They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray. Sir P. Sidney.

 

STICKLE

Stic "kle, n. Etym: [Cf. stick, v. t. & i.]

 

Defn: A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Patient anglers, standing all the day Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay. W. Browne.

 

STICKLEBACK

Stic "kle *back `, n. Etym: [OE. & Prov E. stickle a prickle, spine, sting (AS. sticel ) + back. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Banstickle. ] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.

 

STICKLER

Stic "kler, n. Etym: [See Stickle, v. t.]

 

Defn: One who stickles. Specifically: -- (a ) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. [Obs. ] Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. Sir P. Sidney. Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise. Dryden.

 

(b ) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony. The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II. Swift.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

stickleback

stick le back |ˈstikəlˌbak ˈstɪkəlˌbæk | ▶noun a small fish with sharp spines along its back, able to live in both salt and fresh water and found in both Eurasia and North America. [Family Gasterosteidae: several genera and species, including the common and widespread three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus ).] ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old English sticel ‘thorn, sting ’ + bæc ‘back. ’

 

stickler

stick ler |ˈstik (ə )lər ˈstɪk (ə )lər | ▶noun 1 a person who insists on a certain quality or type of behavior: a stickler for accuracy | a stickler when it comes to timekeeping. 2 a difficult problem; a conundrum. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘umpire ’): from obsolete stickle ‘be umpire, ’ alteration of obsolete stightle ‘to control, ’ frequentative of Old English stiht (i )an ‘set in order. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

stickleback

stickle |back |ˈstɪk (ə )lbak | ▶noun a small fish with sharp spines along its back, able to live in both salt and fresh water and found in both Eurasia and North America. ●Family Gasterosteidae: several genera and species, including the common and widespread three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus ). ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old English sticel ‘thorn, sting ’ + bæc ‘back ’.

 

stickler

stick |ler |ˈstɪklə | ▶noun a person who insists on a certain quality or type of behaviour: he's a stickler for accuracy | I'm a stickler when it comes to timekeeping. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘umpire ’): from obsolete stickle ‘be umpire ’, alteration of obsolete stightle ‘to control ’, frequentative of Old English stiht (i )an ‘set in order ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

stickler

stickler noun there's no pleasing you if you're going to be such a stickler: perfectionist, pedant, nitpicker, purist, diehard, hard-liner, fanatic.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

stickleback

st í ck le b à ck /stɪ́k (ə )l- /名詞 C 〘魚 〙トゲウオ .

 

stickler

stick ler /stɪ́klə r /名詞 C 1 «…について » やかましい人 «for » ▸ a stickler for discipline [detail ]しつけ [細かいこと ]にうるさい人 2 ｟くだけて ｠難問, やっかいな問題 .