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▪ I. squabble, n.|ˈskwɒb(ə)l|
Also 7 squable, squabel, scwable.
[prob. imitative: cf. next and Sw. dial. sqvabbel.]
A wrangle, dispute, brawl; a petty quarrel.
1602How Chuse Good Wife A iv b, Hoping Mistresse you will passe ouer all these Iarres and squabels in good health. a1652Brome Mad Couple ii. i, I..have undersold a parcell of the best Commodities my husband had. And should hee know't wee should have such a scwable. 1690C. Nesse Hist. O. & N. Test. I. 367 Whom possibly in some rude squabble ye have kill'd. 1748H. Walpole Corr. (1846) II. 208 Except elections, and such tiresome squabbles,..it is all harmony. 1788Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 440 The squabbles, in which the pride, the dissipations, and the tyranny of kings, keep this hemisphere constantly embroiled. 1832H. Martineau Ireland i. 8 The disputes..became so virulent that the agent could get no rest from squabbles and complaints. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. 353 Politics were dying down into the squabbles of a knot of nobles.
▪ II. squabble, v.|ˈskwɒb(ə)l|
Also 7 squob(b)le, 7–8 squable.
[See prec.]
1. intr. To wrangle or brawl; to engage in a petty quarrel or dispute; to argue disagreeably or with heat. Freq. const. about, for, over, etc.
1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 281 Drunke? And speake Parrat? And squabble? Swagger? a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 I. 171 It agreeth to children..to squabble; to women of meanest rank to scold. 1693Humours Town 46 They are launching out into the Sea of Politicks,..squabling to be Burgesses. 1730Lett. to Sir W. Strickland rel. to Coal Trade 28 To deliver all the Coals out of the Ship first, and then squabble about the price. 1789Wolcot (P. Pindar) Ep. to falling Minister Wks. 1812 II. 118 Good places For which so oft the people squabble. 1839Thackeray Fatal Boots Dec., Her temper was dreadful, and we used to be squabbling from morning till night! 1873Mrs. Whitney Other Girls xxi, They've been squabbling over it these five minutes.
b. Const. with (another or others).
1655Capel Tentations iv. iii. 27 As brethren out of envy will squabble one with another about a party coloured coat. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. To Rdr. 15 My forbearing..to squable with every petty Sect. 1677W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. ix. 148 The Devil comes again, and squabbles with him. 1740Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 290 They had forgot their former fatal mistake of squabling with their actors. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son I. 156 A yâk, or little cow, which was squabbling with the children about some fruit. 1889Cornh. Mag. Feb. 118, I feel too miserable and too dejected to squabble with Frances.
c. transf. Of a stream. (Cf brawl v.1 3.)
1868G. Macdonald R. Falconer I. 241 On the grassy bank of the gently-flowing river, at the other edge of whose level the little canal squabbled along.
2. trans. In Typog., to throw (type) out of line; to disarrange or disorder; to twist or skew so as to mix the lines.
1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Squobble, is a term among Printers, when the Compositor has set a Form, before it is Imposed, some lines happen to fall out of their order, they say it is squobled. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxii. ⁋3 He spreads and Squabbles the Shanks of the Letters between his Fingers askew. Ibid. 391 A Page or Form is Squabbled when the Letter of one or more Lines are got into any of the adjacent Lines; or that the Letter or Letters are twisted about out of their square Position. 1784B. Franklin in Ann. Reg., Chron. (1817) 385 Every page of it being squabbled, and the whole ready to fall into pye. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 130 Squabble, to break or upset type and thus make ‘pie’ of it.
b. intr. Of type: To get into disorder.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxii. ⁋2 Letter is less subject to Squabble between Line and Line..than it is between side and side.
Hence ˈsquabbled ppl. a.
1886Science VIII. 254 The letters do not range well, giving an irregular or ‘squabbled’ appearance to the line. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 130 Squashed, another term for ‘squabbled’ type. |