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▪ I. brabbling, vbl. n.|ˈbræblɪŋ|
[f. brabble v.]
1.
†a. Cavilling, ‘hair-splitting’ (obs.).
b. Wrangling, noisy quarrelling.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 410/2 To beare and abide the brablyng of Tindals tonge. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. (1634) Pref., With..sophisticall brabblings. 1614Raleigh Hist. World i. 172 The brabblings of the Aristotelians. 1645in Somers Tracts I. 35 The Trade of Brabbling and Pettifogging. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. I. iii. iii. 148 Brabblings, scufflings, objurgations.
†2. A confusion, a jumble. Obs.—0
1530Palsgr. 617/2, I make a brablyng, je barbouille.
▪ II. ˈbrabbling, ppl. a. arch.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
†a. Disposed to cavil or quibble, (obs.);
b. litigious, quarrelsome;
c. tumultuous, riotous.
1549Coverdale Par. Erasm. Gal. v. 14 The brablyng law with so many rules. 1577Harrison England ii. ii. (1877) 53 In a brabling fraie, one of hir men was slaine. 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 63 Violent extortion, brabling suites, and vniust vexations. 1633P. Fletcher Elisa xxii, Brabbling lawyers' brawls. [1855Motley Dutch Rep. ii. viii. (1866) 294 Commerce would have no security at Antwerp ‘in those brabbling times’.] |