Meanings
comparative more squabbly · superlative most squabbly
- Having the tendency to squabble, argumentative
Perhaps the two girls were closer to each other, but Osgood and I were a squabbly pair of youngsters.
1983, Frederick Vanderbilt Field, From Right to Left: An Autobiography, page 371 more example
We came to have paid staff, and had to go by rules and regulations and contracts, and things started to get squabbly
2000, Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd, The New Rank and File, page 125
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squabbly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/squabbly
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