'Stickling' definitions:
Definition of 'Stickling'
From: GCIDE
- Stickle \Stic"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stickling.] [Probably fr. OE. stightlen, sti?tlen, to dispose, arrange, govern, freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf. G. stiften to found, to establish.]
- 1. To separate combatants by intervening. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds. [1913 Webster]
- Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
- While for paltry punk they roar and stickle. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stickling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bashful,
- bashfulness,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- cautious,
- compunction,
- demur,
- demurral,
- demurring,
- diffidence,
- diffident,
- falter,
- faltering,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hesitation,
- jibbing,
- modest,
- modesty,
- objection,
- pause,
- protest,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmish,
- qualmishness,
- recoil,
- scruple,
- scrupling,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulous,
- scrupulousness,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- shyness,
- squeamish,
- sticking,
- straining,
- tentative,
- timid