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quarreller|ˈkwɒrələ(r)|
Also 5 querelour, 6–7 quareller, (7 -or, -our).
[f. quarrel v. + -er1.]
One who quarrels, in senses of the vb.
c1450Aristotle's ABC in Q. Eliz. Acad., etc. 66 Quenche fals querelour; þe quene of heven þe will quite. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) F vij b, No quarellers, but sufferers. 1566T. Stapleton Ret. Untr. Jewel ii. 46 Such a wrangler and Childish quareller as you be. 1601Holland Pliny I. 58 No riuer hath lesse liberty..yet he is no quarreller, nor much harm doeth he. a1642Sir W. Monson Wars with Spain (1682) 3 It were better to keep company with a Coward than a Quarreller. 176.Wesley Husb. & Wives iii. 6 Wks. 1811 IX. 66 Away then with..this quarreller, suspicion. 1824Scott St. Ronan's viii, Quarrellers do not usually live long. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 103 The big albatross..scattering the quarrellers, seizes the tempting morsel for himself.
†b. With pun on quarrel n.1 3. Obs.
1630Conceits, Clinches etc. (Halliw. 1860) 5 One said it was unfit a glasier should be a constable, because he was a common quareller. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 163 Glasiers..are constant Quarrellers. |