Squabble

/ˈskwɒbəl/ · noun

Meaning

A minor fight or argument..

Definitions by Sense

1. A minor fight or argument.
2. (intransitive) To participate in a minor fight or argument; to quarrel.
3. (transitive, printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.

Example Sentences

The children got into a squabble about who should ride in the front of the car.

It was obvious to the inhabitants of the small coastal town of Bridport that in the midst of these squabbles their need for a railway was going to be overlooked, and they decided to take the matter into their own hands.

"p your mess. Also, as apologetic as you were for occupying my time, which I had hoped to spend with my daughter, you used about twice as many words as you needed to, and wasted an entire paragraph complaining about your colleagues. I went back to the SCP-079 file — Supervisor Valis would have had the thing decommissioned years ago if it weren't for your blatant technofetishism. Yet, you have the gall to characterize the Foundation's ongoing political interventions and military operations as squabbles."

The brothers were always squabbling with each other.

The sense of these propositions is very plain and easy, though logicians might perhaps squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.

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Word Forms

• squabbles
• squabbling
• squabbled

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