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 stick·le /ˈstɪkəl/
 (vi.)為小事爭吵,拘泥,猶豫,強詞奪理

 Stic·kle v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stickled p. pr. & vb. n. Stickling.]
 1. To separate combatants by intervening. [Obs.]
    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.
 2. To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
 Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle,
 And for the foe began to stickle.   --Hudibras.
    While for paltry punk they roar and stickle.   --Dryden.
    The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong.   --Hazlitt.
 3. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.

 Stic·kle, v. t.
 1. To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants. [Obs.]
 Which [question] violently they pursue,
 Nor stickled would they be.   --Drayton.
 2. To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate. [Obs.]
    They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.   --Sir P. Sidney.

 Stic·kle, n.  A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
 Patient anglers, standing all the day
 Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay.   --W. Browne.
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 stickle
      v : dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)