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

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Etymology

Origin of brabble

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

brabble brabbling

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

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

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

I still can hear the brabble and the roar At those thy tunes, O still one, now passed through That fitful fire of tongues then entered new!

From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Thomas Hardy

But who'd have thought a burly lout like Morris Would join the brabble?

From Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Yon brabbling burn Makes mellower music in my Scottish ears.

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

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

From Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie

Ralegh explained that a brabbling matter with the Spanish Ambassador was taking him to Tilbury to embark for the Low Countries.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

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