| 单词 | pribbles and prabbles |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspribbles and prabbles A quarrel, a squabble. Frequently in pribbles and prabbles (cf. pribble n.).Originally common in Jacobean and Caroline plays, representing Welsh pronunciation of English; in subsequent use probably frequently with allusion to Shakespeare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > petty quarrel feudc1565 squabble1602 prabble1603 squabbling1611 bangling1612 pickeering1650 squabblement1731 tift1751 tiff1753 spat1804 tracasserie1812 1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. C3v Her thinke the prittish shentleman, is faliant as Mars that, is..the God of pribles & prables. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. viii. 66 I pray you to serue God, and keepe you out of prawles and prabbles [1600 brables], and quarrels and dissentions. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. i. 45 Leaue your prables (o' man)... O' man, forbeare. 1631 J. Shirley Schoole of Complement v. i. 72 Hum! her loue not to make quarrels & prabbles, but Ienkin could fight with any podies in the whole vrld. 1718 T. D'Urfey Richmond Heiress (ed. 2) ii. i. 28 By his Prabbles and his Pratings, I think his prains in as pad Conditions as his Patients, by St Davy. 1794 A. M. Bennett Ellen II. v. 157 Cot knows she is as pad as the best, so she need not give her pribbles and prabbles. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield (at cited word) Au darn't differ wi' him for fear on a prabble. 1912 H. Church Poems 138 The scrivener's pounce, the quill, The jurist's prabble—all the teetotum Spinning for pantler gold. 1993 Observer (Nexis) 31 Oct. (Review section) 11 The intoxication of language, the pribbles and prabbles, the literary jokes and the sudden surges of Berowne's wonderful speeches..are just right in this setting. < as lemmas |
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