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/skwˈɑbəl/ Listen

noun

Squabble n. A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

verb

Squabble v. t. (Print.) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; said of type that has been set up.

Squabble v. i. (past & past part. squabbled; pres. part. squabbling)

To contend for superiority in an unseemly manner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

To debate peevishly; to dispute. "The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative."

Synonyms: To dispute; contend; scuffle; wrangle; quarrel; struggle.

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Etymology of 'Squabble'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Squabble" Quotes from Famous Books

... weather that anyone can remember," but the procrastination over the arrangement and transfer of the lease as ample justification for the delay in fulfilling the engagement. Moreover, other matters were arising which tended to distract the attention of the directors from any passing squabble as to dates. The "overbearing leviathians" might have been quelled some years earlier, but they had not been killed, and at the beginning of 1861, movements were again afoot in North-Western circles to secure an extension of the Minsterley ...

— The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway • C. P. Gasquoine

... age of thirteen, and had advanced to the highest station in the Church. He was much absorbed in matters pertaining to learning and art, and in political affairs, and at first looked upon this Saxon disturbance as a mere squabble of monks. He attempted ineffectually to bring Luther to submission and quietness, first through his legate Cajetan, a scholarly Italian, who met him at Augsburg (1518), and then by a second messenger, Miltitz (1519), a Saxon by birth. A turning-point in Luther's course ...

— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher

... an insulting pre-eminence—seemed outraged to the limit of endurance as I looked forward to the inevitable detection, soon or late, of the impromptu deception which, in spite of me, was expanding and developing like a snake-lie, or an election squabble. ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... cases, before an offender can be reinstated he must kill a fowl and swallow a drop or two of its blood with turmeric. Women commonly get the lobe of the ear torn through the heavy ear-rings which they wear; and in a squabble another woman will often seize the ear-ring maliciously in order to tear the ear. A woman injured in this way is put out of caste for a year in Janjgir. To grow turmeric or garlic is also an offence against caste, but a man is permitted to do this for his own use ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume II • R. V. Russell

... is a thing they detest. They'd take in a nice, fat, old fellow, whose heart was so big it made his body grow to hold it, and who meant to do all the good with his money that his money would do, and not leave it for anybody to squabble over after ...

— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond

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