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

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

From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare, William

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

From Emblems Of Love by Abercrombie, Lascelles

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 Hardy, Thomas

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 Carlyle, Thomas

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 Shakespeare, William