Stickleback
Sponsored by Cadi jonesCame first in group 375 in round 1 with 373 votesbeat Equinox on 203 votesbeat Civil on 26 votesbeat Infant on 10 votes
Came first in group 94 in round 2 with 279 votesbeat Ellipsis on 227 votesbeat Freckle on 164 votesbeat Queer on 92 votes
Won in group 47 in round 3 with 483 votesbeat Lacklustre on 480 votes
Lost in group 24 in round 4 with 362 votesbeaten by Ramshackle on 662 votes
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From dialectal stickle (“a prickle, spine, sting”), from Old English sticel + bæc. See stick (transitive verb) and compare banstickle.
Noun[edit]
stickleback (plural sticklebacks)
- Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.
- Synonyms: (Britain, regional) minnow, sticklebag, sharpling
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 1:
- [I]n my exile and irkeſome diſcontented abandonment, the ſillieſt millers thombe, or contemptible ſtickle-banck of my enemies, is as buſie nibbling about my fame, as if I were a deade man throwne amongeſt them to feede vpon.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
fish of the family Gasterosteidae
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Further reading[edit]
stickleback on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
