Crossword-Solution: STICKLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stickle | v. i. | To separate combatants by intervening. |
| Stickle | v. i. | To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds. |
| Stickle | v. i. | To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim. |
| Stickle | v. t. | To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants. |
| Stickle | v. t. | To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate. |
| Stickle | v. t. & i. | A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STICKLE | anagram | TICKLES |
We have 8 clues for the answer “STICKLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Be very scrupulous. | 1 answer |
| Contend stubbornly. | 1 answer |
| Argue trivially | 2 answers |
| Haggle | 25 answers |
| BACK STARTER | 32 answers |
| Hesitate | 48 answers |
| Carp | 64 answers |
| demur | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STICKLE (5)
But a purty thing for you and the world to stickle at the Pope's playing at cards at a religious house of Irish; och! if I were to tell you and the world, what the Pope has been sometimes at, at the religious house of English thaives, I would excuse you and the world for turning up your eyes.
They were wise not to stickle about rules, for Peter’s eyesight and nerve were as good as those of any boy of twenty.
And you are yet to know, that in case you want a minnow, then a small loach, or a stickle-bag, or any other small fish that will turn quick, will serve as well.
The FIFTH day-continued Of the Minnow, or Penk; Loach, Bull-Head, or Miller's-Thumb: and the Stickle-bag Chapter XVIII Piscator and Venator Piscator.
The water runs down with a strong sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; but on the other side it is flat, pebbly, and fit to land upon.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1960–2005).