Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wrangle; squabble; noisy contest or dispute.
- noun A kind of dance. See
brantle . - To wrangle; dispute contentiously; squabble.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.
- intransitive verb rare To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble.
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- noun
squabble - verb to
squabble
Etymologies
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Examples
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[From en - + brangle (to shake), from French branler (to shake).]
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What a charming possession of himself, that he could be in such a brangle, as I may call it, and which might have had fatal consequences; yet be so wholly, and so soon, divested of the subject; and so infinitely agreeable upon half a score others, as they offered from one or other as we sat at tea!
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In that posture, he, after God, saved the said ark from danger, for with his legs he gave it the brangle that was needful, and with his foot turned it whither he pleased, as a ship answereth her rudder.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Well, said he, that were all one to me, to want both legs and arms, provided you and I had but one merry bout together at the brangle-buttock game; for herewithin is — in showing her his long codpiece — Master John Thursday, who will play you such an antic that you shall feel the sweetness thereof even to the very marrow of your bones.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In that posture, he, after God, saved the said ark from danger, for with his legs he gave it the brangle that was needful, and with his foot turned it whither he pleased, as a ship answereth her rudder.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Well, said he, that were all one to me, to want both legs and arms, provided you and I had but one merry bout together at the brangle-buttock game; for herewithin is — in showing her his long codpiece — Master John Thursday, who will play you such an antic that you shall feel the sweetness thereof even to the very marrow of your bones.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I don't know exactly how it was, but they got into a brangle, and everything went wrong; and then there was so much evil feeling and fighting and killing, and 'there was confusion, and every evil work.'
Oldtown Folks 1869
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I was a fool, it 's a fact, to let any such brangle come up; but when the boy set up his will, he had to be broke in.
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"I was a fool, it's a fact, to let any such brangle come up," said
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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"I was a fool, it's a fact, to let any such brangle come up," said Legree; "but, when the boy set up his will, he had to be broke in."
Gammerstang commented on the word brangle
(verb) - To kick and knock things to desolation, like a mad horse. --John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
April 22, 2018