intransitive. To contend, strive; also, to contend in words, chide, wrangle. Const. against, on, with.

intransitive. To give loud or impassioned utterance to anger, displeasure, disapprobation, reproof. To contend with loud and angry altercation; to…

To quarrel, wrangle. Now rare (poetic).

intransitive. †(a) Originally, to behave as a scold; to quarrel noisily, to brawl; to rail at or wrangle with some one; to use violent or…

intransitive. To dispute angrily; to argue noisily or vehemently; to altercate, contend; to bicker.

To speak angrily, harshly, or discordantly; to grumble, murmur; to contend, dispute, wrangle, squabble. archaic.

intransitive. ‘To quarrel noisily and indecently’ (Johnson); to wrangle; to squabble. (In very early use and in Shakespeare 1597 it was perhaps…

intransitive. To dispute, quarrel, wrangle.

to have words: to have a verbal altercation, speak angrily or sharply, quarrel, argue (with someone) (formerly also †to have some words, †to have…

intransitive. To dispute vehemently or angrily; to argue.

intransitive. To be at strife or active variance; to quarrel; to dispute, bicker, wrangle.

intransitive. To wrangle, squabble, dispute contentiously.

To quarrel about trifles; esp. to quarrel noisily, brawl, squabble. Cf. brabble, n. 3.

To contend, wrangle.

intransitive. To dispute, wrangle, bluster.

To quarrel, strive, brawl.

intransitive. ? To quarrel, wrangle.

intransitive. To wrangle, scold. Cf. cample, v.

transitive. to word it: to talk, esp. excessively or violently; to have (angry) words with. Obsolete (English regional (East Anglian) in later use).

transferred. To utter a similar cry; to make a discordant, hideous noise; to quarrel like cats.

intransitive. To enter on a wordy conflict; to answer in anger; to wrangle, scold, or quarrel.

figurative and in figurative contexts. intransitive. To engage in verbal skirmishing; to wrangle, bicker. Obsolete.

To dispute; to bandy words.

To disagree, quarrel, scold.

intransitive. To quarrel, wrangle.

intransitive. To make a row, commotion, or disturbance; (now esp.) to have a row; to quarrel noisily or heatedly.

intransitive. To argue or quarrel, esp. noisily or rowdily; to have a row. Also (in early use): spec. to dispute the result or legitimacy of a…

intransitive. To argue; to bicker. Obsolete.

intransitive. To bicker, wrangle.

intransitive. To quarrel, squabble; to engage in heated argument or angry dispute.