stickle

noun · adjective · verbB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

stickles

1.
A sharp point; prickle; a spine
2.
(British, dialectal)A shallow rapid in a river.
3.
(British, dialectal)The current below a waterfall.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more stickle

Superlative

most stickle

1.
Steep; high; inaccessible.
2.
(UK, dialectal)(UK, dialect) High, as the water of a river; swollen; sweeping; rapid.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

stickles

V_ing/Gerund

stickling

V_ed/pp

stickled

1.
(British, dialectal, obsolete)To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
2.
(British, archaic, dialectal)(now rare) To argue or struggle for.
3.
(British, dialectal)To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
4.
(British, dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
5.
(British, dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
6.
(British, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete)To separate combatants by intervening.
7.
(British, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete)To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English *stikel, *stykyl (in compounds), from Old English sticel (a prickle, sting, goad), from Proto-Germanic *stiklaz, *stikilaz (sting, stinger, peak, cup, goblet), related to the verb *stikaną (to stick). Cognate with stekel, stikill, 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃 (whence, szkło, stìklas, sticlă).