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squabble

[ skwob-uhl ]

verb (used without object)

, squab·bled, squab·bling.
  1. to engage in a petty quarrel.

    Synonyms: fight, bicker, wrangle, quarrel



verb (used with object)

, squab·bled, squab·bling.
  1. Printing. to disarrange and mix (composed type).

noun

  1. a petty quarrel.

squabble

/ ˈskwɒbəl /

verb

  1. intr to quarrel over a small matter
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a petty quarrel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈsquabbler, noun
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Other Words From

  • squabbler noun
  • squabbling·ly adverb
  • un·squabbling adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of squabble1

1595–1605; probably < Scandinavian; compare Swedish dialect skvabbel a quarrel, gossip, Norwegian dialect skvabba to prattle
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Word History and Origins

Origin of squabble1

C17: probably of Scandinavian origin; related to Swedish dialect sqvabbel to quarrel
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Example Sentences

The rest of the family sometimes balked at their squabbles, which Farr said drove their relatives “justifiably nuts.”

Shaver’s songs evoked dusty back roads, rural isolation, bar fights, knock-down drag-out marital squabbles and money lost at poker games, as well as the near-destitution of his youth and his own lofty ambitions.

“The meeting devolved into a partisan squabble,” The Post’s Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Adam Entous reported the following year.

Bees did, we presume, during a biochemical squabble with viruses in a damp corner of their shared history.

The squabble eventually devolved into a barely choreographed slapstick fight where Colbert, O’Brien, and Jon Stewart seemed to be locked in a battle for the ages.

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The squabble was also immortalized in this incredibly awkward family portrait.

At the time, the renamed corner caused a slight international squabble and demands for its removal.

The crowd that accumulated to watch the squabble reportedly applauded and cheered as Bieber fled the scene.

But this scholarly squabble quickly grew ugly with the discovery of Kennewick Man in 1996.

Refaeli got involved in the squabble herself with a pair of near-identical tweets written in Hebrew.

We fix it up and agree to try over ag'in, and then, fust thing we know, we're right into the middle of another squabble.

The principle would be valuable in many a squabble of corporate employer and hosts of servants in the modern time.

Twice the big steamer stopped her engines and drifted until the squabble ahead of her seemed to have been settled.

Fult Cawsler hes done moved hyar from over on Squabble Creek, an' opened a resteraw.

The hogs evidently thought it feed time, for they rushed forward and began to squabble over the voided matter.

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