Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A battle between the frogs and mice; specifically (cap.), the title of an ancient Greek parody on the Iliad.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.
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- noun A
petty quarrel .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or perhaps you have already realized the truth: like so many other grammatical concerns, this one is a nothing, a trifle, a batrachomyomachy.
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Or perhaps you have already realized the truth: like so many other grammatical concerns, this one is a nothing, a trifle, a batrachomyomachy.
The serial, Harvard, or Oxford comma « Motivated Grammar 2008
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After which grand tournament, to which that of Tottenham shall be but a flea-bite and a batrachomyomachy —”
Westward Ho! 2007
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After which grand tournament, to which that of Tottenham shall be but a flea-bite and a batrachomyomachy -- "
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
ry commented on the word batrachomyomachy
a good single-word replacement for tempest in a teapot or much ado about nothing
June 12, 2013