The noun form first appears c. 1602, while the verbal form first appears c. 1616. Probably ofNorth Germanic origin and ultimatelyimitative.[1]
Related toSwedish dialectalskvabbel(“a dispute, quarrel, gossip”),Norwegian dialectalskvabba(“to prattle”),German dialectalschwabbeln(“to babble, prattle”),Swedish dialectalskvappa(“to chide, scold”, literally“make a splash”).
squabble (pluralsquabbles)
- Aminorfight orargument.
The children got into asquabble about who should ride in the front of the car.
2022 October 18, Placeholder McD, “SCP-7579[offset 1]”, inSCP Foundation[1], archived fromthe original on20 December 2024:"p your mess.
Also, as apologetic as you were for occupying my time, which I had hoped to spend with my daughter, you used about twice as many words as you needed to, and wasted an entire paragraph complaining about your colleagues. I went back to the SCP-079 file — Supervisor Valis would have had the thing decommissioned years ago if it weren't for your blatant technofetishism. Yet, you have thegall to characterize the Foundation's ongoing political interventions and military operations assquabbles."
minor fight or argument
- Afrikaans:please add this translation if you can
- Arabic:please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian:разправия (bg) f(razpravija)
- Czech:půtka (cs) f,rozmíška f,hašteření n,poškorpení n,šarvátka f
- Dutch:gekrakeel (nl) n
- Finnish:kinastelu (fi)
- French:dispute (fr) f,guéguerre (fr) f,riotte (fr) f
- Galician:please add this translation if you can
- German:Rangelei (de) f,Gerangel (de) n,Disput (de) m
- Greek:αψιμαχία (el) f(apsimachía)
- Italian:scaramuccia (it) f,litigio (it) m,battibecco (it) m,diatriba (it) f
- Korean:please add this translation if you can
- Maori:komekome
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:kjekling c
- Nynorsk:kjekling f
- Persian:بگومگو (fa)(begu-magu),یکیبهدو(yeki-be-do)
- Russian:ссо́ра (ru) f(ssóra),перебра́нка (ru) f(perebránka)
- Scottish Gaelic:connsachadh m,connspaid f,trod m
- Serbo-Croatian:čarka (sh)
- Spanish:disputilla (es) f,repique (es) f
- Swedish:käbbel (sv) n,kiv (sv) n,bjäbb (sv) n
- Turkish:hırgür (tr),itiş kakış
- Welsh:cynnen (cy) f,ffrwgwd m
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squabble (third-person singular simple presentsquabbles,present participlesquabbling,simple past and past participlesquabbled)
- (intransitive) Toparticipate in aminorfight orargument; toquarrel.
The brothers were alwayssquabbling with each other.
1725, Isaac Watts,Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published1726,→OCLC:The sense of these propositions is very plain and easy, though logicians might perhapssquabble a whole day whether they should rank them undernegative oraffirmative.
- (transitive, printing) Todisarrange, so that theletters orlines standawry and requirereadjustment.
tosquabble type
participate in a minor fight or argument
