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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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"Squabble" Quotes from Famous Books

... man act Solomon by constantly praising his wisdom. He took a sagacious turn at an early period of the dose. He weighed the smallest question of his daily occasions with a deliberation truly oriental. Had I pushed it, he'd have hired a baby and a couple of mothers to squabble ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... afternoon a neighbour brought word up to the house that there was some sort of a squabble going on down at ...

— With Marlborough to Malplaquet • Herbert Strang and Richard Stead

... too well-bred to squabble here, Or insult back to render; But may you wither soon, my dear, Although so young ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... shivering self-contempt] At last you get that you can bear nothing real at all: you'd rather starve than cook a meal; you'd rather go shabby and dirty than set your mind to take care of your clothes and wash yourself; you nag and squabble at home because your wife isn't an angel, and she despises you because you're not a hero; and you hate the whole lot round you because they're only poor slovenly useless devils like yourself. [Dropping his voice like a man making some shameful confidence] ...

— John Bull's Other Island • George Bernard Shaw

... this time. You see, we're going home day after to-morrow, and very likely we'll never see the Cliftons again, after we leave here. They don't come here every summer like we do. And I hate to spoil these two last days with a horrid squabble, when we six have been so nice and chummy and pleasant all the time we've been here. You needn't have much to do with Pauline, if you don't want to, but just for two days, can't you just be decently polite to her, and not ...

— Two Little Women • Carolyn Wells

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