What does squabble mean?
Definitions for squabble
ˈskwɒb əlsquab·ble
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word squabble.
Princeton's WordNet
bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fussverb
a quarrel about petty points
quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabbleverb
argue over petty things
"Let's not quibble over pennies"
Wiktionary
squabblenoun
A minor fight or argument as between children, for example.
squabbleverb
To participate in a minor fight or argument.
The brothers were always squabbling with each other.
Etymology: Probably of origin, related to dialectal skvabbel, dialectal skvabba, dialectal schwabbeln, dialectal skvappa.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.
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
squabble
A squabble is a noisy argument or disagreement, typically over an unimportant issue, between individuals or groups.
Webster Dictionary
Squabbleverb
to contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel
Squabbleverb
to debate peevishly; to dispute
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
Squabblenoun
a scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of squabble in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of squabble in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of squabble in a Sentence
You can squabble maybe with the choice of words.
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.
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.
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.
Californians in fire areas have lost everything, they should not be victimized again because of a political squabble.
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- شجارArabic
- hašteření, škorpit se, půtka, poškorpení, hašteřit, rozmíška, šarvátka, poškorpit seCzech
- kinastelu, kinastellaFinnish
- dispute, guéguerre, se chamaillerFrench
- connsaich, trod, connspaid, troid, connsachadhScottish Gaelic
- litigio, battibecco, diatriba, litigare, scaramucciaItalian
- komekomeMāori
- kjeklingNorwegian Nynorsk
- kjekle, kjeklingNorwegian
- certaRomanian
- ссора, вздоритьRussian
- čarkati, čarkaSerbo-Croatian
- bjäbb, kiv, käbbelSwedish
- ทะเลาะวิวาทThai
- 争吵Chinese
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