brabblementn.
archaic.
Cavilling, quibbling (obsolete); noisy quarrelling, contentious uproar (now chiefly dialect).
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel
flitingc1200
chidec1325
bicker1330
janglingc1330
chiding1340
wrangling1377
brawling1393
altercationc1405
words1410
brabblementa1563
wording1564
brabblery1567
bickering1573
jarring1574
bickerment1586
frapling1600
brangling1611
jangle1641
campling1660
frabble1685
collieshangie1737
flickering1776
wranglea1797
brabbling1858
bassa-bassa1956
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > [noun]
cavillation138.
hafting1519
brabbling1532
brabblementa1563
chicanery1589
caption1605
illaqueation1605
argutation1641
chicane1681
a1563 J. Bale Sel. Wks. (1849) 176 Are not Christ and his disciples teachers sufficient enough..but we must have unsavoury brabblements?
?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter cvi. 305 They prouokt: wt wrath..Aaron..wyth foolish brablementes.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 68 b Contention..is euer in Armes, neuer out of brabblements.
1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 23 Hees ollas agait o' some brabblement.
1876 Daily News 28 Sept. 5/3 The Commune was a time of extraordinary ‘brabblement’—to use a word of Carlyle's.
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