英:['bræbl]
美:['bræbl]
英:['bræbl]
美:['bræbl]
Verb
1. argue over petty things;
"Let's not quibble over pennies"
perhaps from Middle Dutch brabbelen, of imitative origin
The first known use of brabble was in 1568
1 "A meddlesome, forward kind of fellow; always getting into scrapes and brabbles!" thinks Friedrich.
2 I like such a knave so can tickle them all, To set noblemen at brabble and brawl.
3 All their debates were pacified by him; he put an end to their brabbling suits at law and wrangling differences.
4 Other whites take part in our brabbles, while temper holds out, with a certain schoolboy entertainment.
5 He had hailed even the Treaty of Utrecht with welcome, in hopes it might at least end these Northern brabbles.
6 bored children brabbling in the back seat
7 Now, by the gods that warlike Goths adore, This pretty brabble will undo us all.—
8 Ralegh explained that a brabbling matter with the Spanish Ambassador was taking him to Tilbury to embark for the Low Countries.
9 Yon brabbling burn Makes mellower music in my Scottish ears.
10 I still can hear the brabble and the roar At those thy tunes, O still one, now passed through That fitful fire of tongues then entered new!
11 But now Patricia confessed to a restless longing for the sight of city streets and the brabble of city noises.
12 From the Spanish comes the proverb, “A great dowry is a bed full of brabbles.”
13 He had his share of brabbling with intricate litigant neighbors; quarrels now and then not to be settled without strokes.
14 Women, for the most part, received this punishment for not controlling their “brabbling” tongues.
15 Special recruiting brabbles there had been; severe laws passed in Saxony about these kidnapping operations: and always in the Diets, when question rose of this matter, August had been particularly loud in his denouncings.
16 And, oh! how “full of brabbles” have we found the path.
17 "What King you like, in God's name; only don't come over my threshold with his brabbles and him!"
18 Then brabbles about boundaries; about inheritances, and detached properties very many,—clearly mine, were the neighbors reasonable!
19 But what would you, when "brabbling women slander and scandalize their neighbours, for which their poore husbands are often brought into chargeable and vexatious suits and cast in great damages"?
20 There would be fewer “brabbles” in their path.
1 争吵
fight row breach tangle fray brawl quarrel broil snarl squabble wrangle spat jangle hullabaloo dustup break hassle spar bicker set by the ears exchange words bandy words feudal jangly out yike threap cross-up shout-up blue argument debate scrap controversy breeze scrape disagreement fuss discord strife rhubarb altercation unpleasantness barney bust-up blowoff falling-out ruction punch-up dingdong shindy rammy bagarre schemozzle collieshangie flyting fratch passage dispute jar feud quibble flite altercate argue a passage of arms flap chops at odds
2 口角
word difference dispute scrap altercation broil squabble bicker spat row differ snarl altercate hot words to bandy words hassle verbal fuss tangle quarrel rhubarb SPAR wrangle jangle brawling jar tiff
3 吵嘴
5 争论
polemic disputant disputatious word difference fight argument conflict difficulty contest dispute controversy tilt contention discord quarrel altercation haggle bicker wrangling argumentation disputation rumpus contestation set-to sturt fratch threap setto polemize argue disagree hassle contend squabble wrangle jangle argufy controvert make an issue of tangle with tit for tat