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11 letters · 25 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
originFrom dialectal stickle (“a prickle, spine, sting”), from Old English sticel + bæc. See stick (transitive verb) and compare banstickle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- kickable 20
- sacklike 18
- stickable 17
- ticklaces 17
- backlist 16
- blackest 16
- scablike 16
- ticklace 16
- tiebacks 16
- bakkie 16
- kiacks 16
- klicks 16