Meanings
nounpick-quarrel (plural pick-quarrels)
plural pick-quarrels · alternative pickquarrel
- archaicA quarrelsome person; one ready to pick quarrels.
And on the other side, cursed be the peace-breakers, pickquarrels, whisperers, backbiters, sowers of discord, dispraisers of them that be good, to bring them out of favour, interpreters to evil that is done for a good purpose, finders of faults where none is […]
1849, The Parker Society
Origin
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