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stickler 音标拼音: [st'ɪkəlɚ] [st'ɪklɚ] n. 好挑剔的人;拘泥的人 好挑剔的人;拘泥的人 stickler n 1: someone who insists on something; " a stickler for promptness" Stickler \ Stic" kler\ ( st[ i^] k" kl[~ e] r), n. [ See { Stickle}, v. t.] One who stickles. Specifically: [ 1913 Webster] ( a) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. -- Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster] Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] ( b) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony. [ 1913 Webster] The Tory or High- church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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