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

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

From Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie

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 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

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

Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state, In private brabble did we apprehend him.

From Twelfth Night 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

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

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