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† ˈpick-ˌquarrel Obs.
[See pick-.]
1. One given to picking quarrels; a quarrelsome person.
1530Tindale Pract. Prelates Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 264 He hath been all his life a pick-quarrel. 1532Ibid. 27 Cursed be the peace-breakers, pick-quarrels, whisperers, backbiters. 1588E. Aggas tr. Pres. Estate France 56 All the pickquarrels, all the porters of Paris..are at thy becke.
2. An occasion of quarrel; a cause of dispute.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. §54 If all these pretences and demands were cancelled, and Callis forgotten, which hath beene the continuall picke-quarrell betwixt these two Realmes. |