stickle - v. 为小事争吵,拘泥,犹疑;

• They failed to make their agreed rendezvous in the Stickle Barn pub.
• The stickle bricks I remember as a little person, 30 years ago, were a lot more malleable.
• "Yon fellow does n't stickle at calling ye names, Miss Meredith," said Evatt.