单词 | squabble |
释义 | squabblen. A wrangle, dispute, brawl; a petty quarrel. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > petty quarrel feudc1565 squabble1602 prabble1603 squabbling1611 bangling1612 pickeering1650 squabblement1731 tift1751 tiff1753 spat1804 tracasserie1812 1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife A iv b Hoping Mistresse you will passe ouer all these Iarres and squabels in good health. a1652 R. Brome Mad Couple Well Match'd ii. i. sig. C4, in Five New Playes (1653) I..have undersold a parcell of the best Commodities my husband had. And should hee know't wee should have such a scwable. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 367 Whom possibly in some rude squabble ye have kill'd. 1748 H. Walpole Corr. (1846) II. 208 Except elections, and such tiresome squabbles,..it is all harmony. 1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 440 The squabbles, in which the pride, the dissipations, and the tyranny of kings, keep this hemisphere constantly embroiled. 1832 H. Martineau Ireland i. 8 The disputes..became so virulent that the agent could get no rest from squabbles and complaints. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §1. 353 Politics were dying down into the squabbles of a knot of nobles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020). squabblev. 1. a. intransitive. To wrangle or brawl; to engage in a petty quarrel or dispute; to argue disagreeably or with heat. Frequently const. about, for, over, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in petty manner squabblea1616 tift1780 flicker1809 tiff1859 naggle1863 frip1921 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) ii. iii. 274 Drunke? And speake Parrat? And squabble? Swagger? a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) iv. 174 It agreeth to Children..to squabble; to Women of meanest rank..to scold. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 46 They are launching out into the Sea of Politicks,..squabling to be Burgesses. 1730 Let. to Sir W. Strickland relating to Coal Trade 28 To deliver all the Coals out of the Ship first, and then squabble about the price. 1789 J. Wolcot Poet. Epist. to falling Minister 18 Good places, For which so oft the people squabble. 1839 W. M. Thackeray Fatal Boots Dec. Her temper was dreadful, and we used to be squabbling from morning till night! 1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls xxi. 279 They've been squabbling over it these five minutes. b. Const. with (another or others). ΚΠ 1655 R. Capel Tentations iv. i. 27 As brethren out of envy will squabble one with another about a party-coloured coat. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness To Rdr. ¶18. p. xv My forbearing..to squable with every petty Sect. 1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. ix. 148 The Devil comes again, and squabbles with him. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xii. 232 They had forgot their former fatal Mistake of squabbling with their Actors. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. xxi. 156 A yâk, or little cow, which was squabbling with the children about some fruit. 1889 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 118 I feel too miserable and too dejected to squabble with Frances. c. transferred. Of a stream. (Cf brawl v.1 3.) ΚΠ 1868 G. MacDonald Robert 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. a. transitive. In Typography, to throw (type) out of line; to disarrange or disorder; to twist or skew so as to mix the lines. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > compose [verb (transitive)] > throw type out of line, disorder squabble1674 1674 T. Blount Glossographia (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. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 209 He spreads and Squabbles the shanks of the Letters between his Fingers askew. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 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. 1784 B. Franklin in Ann. Reg., Chron. (1817) 385 Every page of it being squabbled, and the whole ready to fall into pye. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 130 Squabble, to break or upset type and thus make ‘pie’ of it. b. intransitive. Of type: To get into disorder. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > compose [verb (intransitive)] > of type, get into disorder squabble1683 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 202 Letter is less subject to Squabble between Line and Line..than it is between side and side. Derivatives ˈsquabbled adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [adjective] > of type, disordered squabbled1886 1886 Science 8 254 The letters do not range well, giving an irregular or ‘squabbled’ appearance to the line. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 130 Squashed, another term for ‘squabbled’ type. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1602v.a1616 |
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