单词 | brabbler |
释义 | brabblern. archaic. One who brabbles: ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > [noun] > practitioner of hafter1519 brabbler1548 caviller1574 chicaneer1653 chicaner1673 contortionist1887 1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. (1567) Cinciglione, is a dronken brabeler. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 370/1 Brablers and ale house quarrellers. 1647 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 10 He is..a brabler and a quarreller. 1713 Bp. Gibson Articles Visit. in J. Toulmin Smith Parish (1857) 94 Is he a brabler, brawler..seditious party? b. A quarrelsome person, brawler. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrelsomeness > quarrelsome person conteckerc1300 brawler1377 strivera1400 debater1413 tuilyier1444 briguer1496 Sir Wrig-wraga1529 brabbler1570 squarer1600 pickeerer1656 rafflerc1750 roit1825 pickeer1888 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2274/2 I am no brabler in the scripture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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