What does squabble mean?

Definitions for squabble
ˈskwɒb əlsquab·ble

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fussverb

    a quarrel about petty points

  2. quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabbleverb

    argue over petty things

    "Let's not quibble over pennies"

Wiktionary

  1. squabblenoun

    A minor fight or argument as between children, for example.

  2. squabbleverb

    To participate in a minor fight or argument.

    The brothers were always squabbling with each other.

  3. Etymology: Probably of origin, related to dialectal skvabbel, dialectal skvabba, dialectal schwabbeln, dialectal skvappa.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Squabblenoun

    A low brawl; a petty quarrel.

    Etymology: from the verb.

    In popular factions, pragmatick fools commonly begin the squabble, and crafty knaves reap the benefit. Roger L'Estrange.

    A man whose personal courage is suspected, is not to drive squadrons before him; but may be allowed the merit of some squabble, or throwing a bottle at his neighbour’s head. Arbuth.

  2. To SQUABBLEverb

    To quarrel; to debate peevishly; to wrangle; to fight. A low word.

    Etymology: kiabla, Swedish.

    Drunk? and speak parrot? and squabble? swagger? oh, thou invincible spirit of wine! William Shakespeare, Othello.

    I thought it not improper in a squabbling and contentious age, to detect the vanity of confiding ignorance. Joseph Glanvill.

    If there must be disputes, is not squabbling less inconvenient than murder? Jeremy Collier, on Duelling.

    The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day, whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative. Isaac Watts, Logick.

ChatGPT

  1. squabble

    A squabble is a noisy argument or disagreement, typically over an unimportant issue, between individuals or groups.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Squabbleverb

    to contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel

  2. Squabbleverb

    to debate peevishly; to dispute

  3. Squabbleverb

    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

  4. Squabblenoun

    a scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Squabble

    skwob′l, v.i. to dispute in a noisy manner: to wrangle.—n. a noisy, petty quarrel: a brawl.—n. Squabb′ler. [Scand., Sw. dial. skvabbel, a dispute.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of squabble in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of squabble in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of squabble in a Sentence

  1. State John Kerry:

    You can squabble maybe with the choice of words.

  2. Eric Tanenblatt:

    When you're a secretary of state in a state and all of the sudden you become a nationally known figure in a squabble with the President of the United States, that doesn't put you in a positive light.

  3. Winston Churchill:

    The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

  4. Jacob Wallenberg:

    It sort of boils down to that we are not personally owners of this. We can not run into the squabble part, I have to go to a job and earn Jacob Wallenberg living, like everyone else.

  5. Marie Waldron:

    Californians in fire areas have lost everything, they should not be victimized again because of a political squabble.

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