fiddlestickler (noun): fiddlesticks + stickler = a person lacking compromise who stubbornly insists on something, something really quite inconsequential, pointless or petty. Fiddlesticklers express impatience when others do not jump on the their bandwagons-to-nowhere. See wives; see husbands.
11 comments:
How ludicrating for you.
{ludicrous + frustrating}
I have enormpathy for your situation as an erstwhile sufferer.
{enormous + sympathy}
Remember - tomanoday!
{tomorrows + another + day}
Oh yeah! I've had to deal with a fiddlestickler in particular more than a few times myself.
see also traffic cops.
Sounds like an immature spoilt brat born with a silver spoon in their mouths and thinks their poo doesn't pong :-).
She didn't approve of the stapled ceiling, did she?
Should have used duct tape.
Sounds like a certain sister in law I have the misfortune to know.
She is beyond irrational.
Want to go all Ninja on her ass.
Yep!! My husband's pic should go right next to this...
Makes perfect sense to me.
I'd like this better if it wasn't describing me more than the Hubster. Darn it.
"see wives, see husbands." Too true to be funny, man. But I still laughed...
@Alistair Good wordfused advice.
@VinnyC I know you have.
@EllyLou Mos def.
@Windsmoke Pong? I must google that. Awesome.
@AC You are SO insightful.
@sprite I remember you mentioning her before.
@Missy Ha!
@Cheeseboy Thanks.
@Nicole You are too hard on yourself. I'm sure you're both equally fiddlesticklers.
@paul Thanks.
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