squabblesome

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adjective

Prone to squabble.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

adjectivesquabblesome (comparative more squabblesome, superlative most squabblesome)

comparative more squabblesome · superlative most squabblesome

  1. Prone to squabble.

    You can have Church of England and Unitarian and Buddhist under the same roof without courting disaster; the only Buddhist I ever had down here quarrelled with everybody, but that was on account of his naturally squabblesome temperament; it had nothing to do with his religion.

    1919, Saki, “The Oversight”, in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, page 256

    Synonyms: quarrelsome

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveProne to squabble.

Origin

  1. Englishsquabble
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  4. Proto-Germanic*samaz
  5. Englishsquabblesome

From squabble + -some.

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