Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to stickle
Participle: stickled
Gerund: stickling
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | stickle |
| you | stickle |
| he;she;it | stickles |
| we | stickle |
| you | stickle |
| they | stickle |
Perfect
| I | have stickled |
| you | have stickled |
| he;she;it | has stickled |
| we | have stickled |
| you | have stickled |
| they | have stickled |
Past
| I | stickled |
| you | stickled |
| he;she;it | stickled |
| we | stickled |
| you | stickled |
| they | stickled |
Pluperfect
| I | had stickled |
| you | had stickled |
| he;she;it | had stickled |
| we | had stickled |
| you | had stickled |
| they | had stickled |
Future
| I | will stickle |
| you | will stickle |
| he;she;it | will stickle |
| we | will stickle |
| you | will stickle |
| they | will stickle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have stickled |
| you | will have stickled |
| he;she;it | will have stickled |
| we | will have stickled |
| you | will have stickled |
| they | will have stickled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | stickle |
| you | stickle |
| he;she;it | stickle |
| we | stickle |
| you | stickle |
| they | stickle |
Perfect
| I | have stickled |
| you | have stickled |
| he;she;it | have stickled |
| we | have stickled |
| you | have stickled |
| they | have stickled |
Imperfect
| I | stickled |
| you | stickled |
| he;she;it | stickled |
| we | stickled |
| you | stickled |
| they | stickled |
Pluperfect
| I | had stickled |
| you | had stickled |
| he;she;it | had stickled |
| we | had stickled |
| you | had stickled |
| they | had stickled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would stickle |
| you | would stickle |
| he;she;it | would stickle |
| we | would stickle |
| you | would stickle |
| they | would stickle |
Perfect
| I | would have stickled |
| you | would have stickled |
| he;she;it | would have stickled |
| we | would have stickled |
| you | would have stickled |
| they | would have stickled |
Imperative
| you | stickle |
| we | Let's stickle |
| you | stickle |
Verbs conjugated like 'stickle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'stickle'
sickle,
snickle,
strickle,
tickle,
brickle,
fickle,
pickle,
prickle,
shackle,
shuckle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From a variant of stightle (“to order, arrange, direct”), from Middle English stightelen, stiȝtlen, stihilen, stihlen, equivalent to stight (“to order, rule, govern”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
2. For the development of /təl/ to /kəl/, compare huckleberry and dialectal turkle (“turtle”).
Sample Sentences
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‘She has other people than poor little you to think about, and has gone abroad with them; so you needn’t be in the least afraid she’ll stickle this time for her rights.’ [1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:]
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Miserable new Berline! Why could not Royalty go in some old Berline similar to that of other men? Flying for life, one does not stickle about his vehicle. [1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):]
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Which [question] violently they pursue, / Nor stickled would they be. [1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses' Elizium:]
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They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray. (The New Arcadia) [c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The First Booke] Chapter 1”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC, folio 9, recto:]
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When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians are already killed, and all the rest in a fair way to be routed, [he]stickles betwixt the remainders of God’s host, and the race of fiends. [1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:]
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Fortune, as she’s wont, turned fickle, / And for the foe began to stickle. [1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:]
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for paltry punk they roar and stickle [1684, John Dryden, To The Disappointment:]
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the obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong [c. 1817, William Hazlitt, Character of John Bull:]