stickling

"This will be brought to you by Stickling," the note said; but who Stickling was Vavasor did not know.

The artists fought this influence, stickling a long time for the severer classicism of ancient Greece.

Why, man, I found them fastened on him myself; and there was odd staving and stickling to make them 'ware haunch!'

This is seen in their way of stickling for accuracy when others repeat familiar word-forms.