单词 | pick-quarrel |
释义 | † pick-quarreln. Obsolete. 1. A person given to picking quarrels; a quarrelsome person. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1530 |
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