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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Squabble \Squab"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Squabbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squabbling}.] [Cf. dial. Sw. skvabbel a dispute, skvappa to chide.] 1. To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel. 2. To debate peevishly; to dispute. The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative. --I. Watts. Syn: To dispute; contend; scuffle; wrangle; quarrel; struggle. | |
