Pronunciations (4)
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/ˈskwɒbəl/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈskwɑːbəl/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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ˈskwɒbl
Pronunciation notes
- GB
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ˈskwɑːbl
Pronunciation notes
- US
Noun
A minor fight or argument.
- Examples
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The children got into a squabble about who should ride in the front of the car.
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It was obvious to the inhabitants of the small coastal town of Bridport that in the midst of these squabbles their need for a railway was going to be overlooked, and they decided to take the matter into their own hands.
"p your mess. Also, as apologetic as you were for occupying my time, which I had hoped to spend with my daughter, you used about twice as many words as you needed to, and wasted an entire paragraph complaining about your colleagues. I went back to the SCP-079 file — Supervisor Valis would have had the thing decommissioned years ago if it weren't for your blatant technofetishism. Yet, you have the gall to characterize the Foundation's ongoing political interventions and military operations as squabbles."
A group of seagulls.
Usage- collective
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Damon pointed at the squabble of gulls.
When the squabble of gulls splashed into the river, they squawked, swam apart, flapped away with dripping bits in bloody beaks
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listening to the squabble of gulls as they fight for leftover scraps of picnic down at the seafront.
Verb
To participate in a minor fight or argument; to quarrel.
Usage- Intransitive
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The brothers were always squabbling with each other.
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The sense of these propositions is very plain and easy, though logicians might perhaps squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.
To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
Usage- Transitive
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to squabble type
Noun
a quarrel about petty points
Verb
argue over petty things
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Let's not quibble over pennies