brabble

American  

[brab-uhl] / ˈbræb əl /

verb (used without object)

brabbled, brabbling

1. to argue stubbornly about trifles; wrangle.

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noun

1. noisy, quarrelsome chatter.

brabble British  

/ ˈbræbəl /

verb

1. a rare word for squabble

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Other Word Forms

• brabblement
  noun
• brabbler
  noun

Etymology

Origin of brabble

First recorded in 1490–1500, from Dutch brabbelen “to quarrel, jabber”

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

brabble brabbling

Melantius, thou art welcome, and my love Is with thee still; but this is not a place To brabble in; Calianax, joyn hands.

From The Maids Tragedy by John Fletcher

I like such a knave so can tickle them all, To set noblemen at brabble and brawl.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt

Now by the Gods that warlike Gothes adore, This pretty brabble will vndoo vs all: Why Lords, and thinke you not how dangerous It is to set vpon a Princes right?

From Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

Oh, as to that, never!—Then this marriage also comes to nothing Of the English, and their Double-Marriage, and their Hotham brabble, he spoke lightly, as of an extinct matter,—in terms your Excellency will like.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Thomas Carlyle

Now, by the gods that warlike Goths adore, This pretty brabble will undo us all.—

From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

All week long in Berlin the desultory brabbling between the Western Powers and the Russians flared, faded, flared again.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stop brabbling, fools; I would hear the Queen's mind. 1st Woman.

From Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie

Yon brabbling burn Makes mellower music in my Scottish ears.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 by Various

All their debates were pacified by him; he put an end to their brabbling suits at law and wrangling differences.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux

But what would you, when "brabbling women slander and scandalize their neighbours, for which their poore husbands are often brought into chargeable and vexatious suits and cast in great damages"?

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins