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squabbly en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree North Germanicbor.? English squabble Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English squabbly From squabble + -y.

Meanings

1. Having the tendency to squabble, argumentative
   • Perhaps the two girls were closer to each other, but Osgood and I were a squabbly pair of youngsters. 1983, Frederick Vanderbilt Field, From Right to Left: An Autobiography, page 37:
   • We came to have paid staff, and had to go by rules and regulations and contracts, and things started to get squabbly 2000, Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd, The New Rank and File, page 125:

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