Meanings
comparative more squabblesome · superlative most squabblesome
- 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 256Synonyms: quarrelsome
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveProne to squabble.
Origin
- Englishsquabble
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*somHós
- Proto-Germanic*samaz
- Englishsquabblesome
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