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squabble [ skwob -uh l ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈskwɒb əl / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used without object), squab·bled, squab·bling.
to engage in a petty quarrel.
verb (used with object), squab·bled, squab·bling.
Printing . to disarrange and mix (composed type).
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Origin of squabble 1595–1605; probably <Scandinavian; compare Swedish dialect skvabbel a quarrel, gossip, Norwegian dialect skvabba to prattle
OTHER WORDS FROM squabble squabbler, noun squab·bling·ly, adverb un·squab·bling, adjective
Words nearby squabble sqn ,
Sqn Ldr ,
sqq. ,
sq. r. ,
squab ,
squabble ,
squabby ,
squacco ,
squad ,
squad car ,
squadder
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Words related to squabble altercation ,
bickering ,
controversy ,
difference ,
disagreement ,
dispute ,
feud ,
flap ,
hassle ,
quarrel ,
spat ,
tiff ,
wrangle ,
disagree ,
fall out ,
quibble ,
fight ,
fuss ,
row ,
scene
How to use squabble in a sentence The rest of the family sometimes balked at their squabble s, which Farr said drove their relatives “justifiably nuts.”
Shaver’s songs evoked dusty back roads, rural isolation, bar fights, knock-down drag-out marital squabble s and money lost at poker games, as well as the near-destitution of his youth and his own lofty ambitions.
“The meeting devolved into a partisan squabble ,” The Post’s Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Adam Entous reported the following year.
Bees did, we presume, during a biochemical squabble with viruses in a damp corner of their shared history.
The squabble eventually devolved into a barely choreographed slapstick fight where Colbert, O’Brien, and Jon Stewart seemed to be locked in a battle for the ages.
The squabble was also immortalized in this incredibly awkward family portrait.
At the time, the renamed corner caused a slight international squabble and demands for its removal.
The crowd that accumulated to watch the squabble reportedly applauded and cheered as Bieber fled the scene.
But this scholarly squabble quickly grew ugly with the discovery of Kennewick Man in 1996.
Refaeli got involved in the squabble herself with a pair of near-identical tweets written in Hebrew.
We fix it up and agree to try over ag'in, and then, fust thing we know, we're right into the middle of another squabble .
The principle would be valuable in many a squabble of corporate employer and hosts of servants in the modern time.
Twice the big steamer stopped her engines and drifted until the squabble ahead of her seemed to have been settled.
Fult Cawsler hes done moved hyar from over on Squabble Creek, an' opened a resteraw.
The hogs evidently thought it feed time, for they rushed forward and began to squabble over the voided matter.
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British Dictionary definitions for squabble
verb
(intr) to quarrel over a small matter
Derived forms of squabble squabbler , noun Word Origin for squabble C17: probably of Scandinavian origin; related to Swedish dialect sqvabbel to quarrel
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