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squabble

[skwob-uhl]

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verb (used without object)

to engage in a petty quarrel.

verb (used with object)

Printing. to disarrange and mix (composed type).

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noun

a petty quarrel.

Origin:
1595–1605; probably < Scandinavian; compare Swedish dialect skvabbel a quarrel, gossip, Norwegian dialect skvabba to prattle

Related forms

squab·bler, noun

squab·bling·ly, adverb

un·squab·bling, adjective

Synonyms
1. quarrel, wrangle, bicker, fight.

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Lawmakers continued to squabble over the details of competing proposals and offered little evidence that a deal was at hand.

Various stakeholders will squabble and object until financial conditions deteriorate past the point of no return.

Those who squabble over space disagree about why there are more species in the tropics than anywhere else.

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Lawmakers continued to squabble over the details of competing proposals and offered little evidence that a deal was at hand.

Various stakeholders will squabble and object until financial conditions deteriorate past the point of no return.

Those who squabble over space disagree about why there are more species in the tropics than anywhere else.

If a squabble breaks out between a male and a female, the female lemur always wins the argument.

The squabble about how to fix this problem had dragged on for years.

It would seem that the squabble has ignited the design community against the barbarians at their gate.

He said, however, that they had had a little squabble because he was going to buy a motor car business.

Squabble all you want over imaginary prejudice you project into this article or attack it author.

Other corporate siblings squabble over the family name.

The animals no sooner appear than they start to squabble over who will rule as king.

The last drags on as the claimant's widow and son squabble over how much to accept.

One in four said an online squabble resulted in a face-to-face argument or worse.

The bickering culminated in a late autumn squabble about the attorney-general's job.

Both sides of the political spectrum are equally to blame as they squabble over issues of little import to.

There will be another squabble this autumn over the proposed budget, which is much tighter than last year's.

The pair squabble constantly but must band together against.

Cartels always find yet another reproach to squabble with each other.

Nor should it surprise anyone that this squabble attracted the interest of powerful figures in the church.

The mad-cow saga has become a squabble over what sorts of beef should be sold.

Their domestic squabble is interrupted by the phone.

The robbers squabble constantly, though each has so little personality it's hard to see why they aren't best friends.

Unfortunately, a needless squabble over brandname versus generic drugs has brought these programs to a virtual halt.

But they rarely degenerate to the point where a company gets into a public squabble with a fired auditor.

The details of the squabble over the estate are less important than the lesson to be drawn from it.

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squabble (ˈskwɒb^əl)

—vb
1.	(intr) to quarrel over a small matter

—n
2.	a petty quarrel

[C17: probably of Scandinavian origin; related to Swedish dialect sqvabbel to quarrel]

'squabbler

—n

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Word Origin & History

squabble

c.1600, probably of imitative origin (cf. dialectal Swedish skvabbel "quarrel," dialectal Ger. schwabbeln "to babble, prattle"). The verb is recorded from c.1600.

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