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单词 pick-quarrel
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pick-quarreln.

Forms: see pick- comb. form and quarrel n.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pick- comb. form, quarrel n.2
Etymology: < pick- comb. form + quarrel n.2, after to pick a quarrel (see pick v.1 14b). Compare picker of quarrels at picker n.1 3, quarrel-picker n.1
Obsolete.
1. A person given to picking quarrels; a quarrelsome person.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > picking quarrels > one who
picker of quarrelsc1518
pick-quarrel1530
quarrel-picker1541
1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Ciijv He hath bene all his life a pickequarell.
1532 W. Tyndale Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 27 Cursed be the peace-breakers, pick-quarrels, whisperers, backbiters.
1588 tr. M. Hurault Disc. Present Estate France 56 All the pickquarrels, all the porters of Paris..are at thy becke.
2. A reason or occasion for a quarrel; a cause of dispute. rare.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > cause of quarrel
pick-quarrel1611
embroiler1751
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 840/1 If all these pretences and demaunds were cancelled, and Callis forgotten, which hath beene the continuall picke-quarrell betwixt these two Realmes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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