Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To wrangle; dispute or quarrel noisily.
- n. A broil; a clamorous contest; a wrangle.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. rare To clamor; to contest noisily.
- n. A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle.
WordNet 3.0
- v. argue over petty things
Examples
“Then they divided the gold and jewels between them; but a brabble arose between them concerning the enchanted saddle bags, Sálim saying, “I will have them;” and Salím, saying, “I will take them;” and they came to high words.”
“When you asked one another (the first time) what was become of me; I was hard by you: at the most, within the distance of two yards length; and perceiving that you saw mee not, (being still so neere, and alwaies before you:) I went on, smiling to my selfe, to heare you brabble and rage against me.”
“[Illustration] "What monstrous brabble is this, you mad bitch?" he retorted, grunting as I bear-hugged his waist, shouldering the cuirass to squeeze it home.”
“Beginning with that brabble over the “gray cloth gowne,” there must have gone on in Hudson's party the same bickerings and wranglings that went on in Greely's party, and the same development of small animosities into burning hatreds.”
“Braver hearts never beat in English breasts, yet do but mark how they brabble and clamour like clowns on a Saturday night.”
“But now Patricia confessed to a restless longing for the sight of city streets and the brabble of city noises.”
“I tell you I'm not to be mollified by any woman's brabble," blustered Lee.”
“Beginning with that brabble over the "gray cloth gowne," there must have gone on in Hudson's party the same bickerings and wranglings that went on in Greely's party, and the same development of small animosities into burning hatreds.”
Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements
“His wrath at their babble and petty brabble doubted that they did.”
“Then they divided the gold and jewels between them; but a brabble arose between them concerning the enchanted saddle bags, Sálim saying, "I will have them;" and”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brabble’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
babeldom, baccate, bacchanal, bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous, bacillicide, backstay, bactericide, baculiform, baculine, baculum and 582 more...
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CCle
all those wonderful Britsy words that end with a double consonant followed by 'le'
doddle, bobble, dibble, whiffle, waffle, diddle, piddle, jiggle, straggle, boggle, fiddle, skeedaddle and 125 more...
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
triffid, calque, pinguid, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 263 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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Archaic
Because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
comeling, circuition, assentment, advisement, accompts, apertness, larum, soothfastness, deperdition, marish, covin, tinct and 166 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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whigmaleeries
naumachy, skeesicks, barghest, catoblepas, bunyip, bellwether, gadabout, footle, aestival, brannigan, brabble, kilkenny cats and 6 more...
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20 Obsolete Words that Should Make a ...
"If we all start using them, these words can be resurrected."
jargogle, deliciate, corrade, kench, ludibrious, sanguinolency, jollux, malagrugous, brabble, freck, brannigan, perissology and 8 more...
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Seedy's Words
dustyfoot, o-dark-thirty, architrave crown, limbeck, galoot, feckless, smock, snood, sleck, noceur, rake, libertine and 33 more...
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skipvia's Words
syzygy, egg, lossy, catharsis, impuissance, truckle, obsequious, sequoia, sonot khazoot, alizarin, sepulchre, klister and 434 more...
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jaime_d From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution Mar 6, 2011