squabbling
English
Noun
squabbling (plural squabblings)
- A petty argument or conflict.
- 1840, Robert Chambers, William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
- Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.
- 1840, Robert Chambers, William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
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