Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who excites contentions and quarrels.
- noun A plant, Jasminum fruticans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who excites contentions and quarrels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who excites
contentions andquarrels ; aninstigator . - noun A plant, Jasminum fruticans.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word makebate.
Examples
-
But after all he pays well that pays with gold; and Mike Lambourne was never a makebate, or a spoil-sport, or the like.
Kenilworth 2004
-
[Sidenote: 2 Object.] [Sidenote: A makebate.] [Sidenote: Tenterden steeple.]
-
Barillon was therefore directed to act, with all possible precautions against detection, the part of a makebate.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
-
But after all he pays well that pays with gold; and Mike Lambourne was never a makebate, or a spoil-sport, or the like.
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
-
Troublemakers: scapegrace ` wild and unprincipled, 'rakehell ` lewd and dissolute,' scarebabe (- bairn in Scotland), drawblood, flingbrand, blowcoal, makebate (as in ` debate '), stirpassion and stirstrife (why the wildflower loosestrife is accused of this propensity I know not), spitfire and shitefire
-
(25, 294) See also bunkum. makebate, n. contentious person.
-
Grandfather Adams discusses a petition opposing the Erie Canal which was signed by every makebate, dawplucker and mal-content. meteorastic, adj. denoting a school of medicine that believed that all diseases came from the air.
-
Angus answered somewhat sulkily, that “he was no makebate, or stirrer-up of quarrels; he would rather be a peacemaker.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
-
“It is not necessary you should altogether abandon him, though you dismiss him to another service, or to a calling better suiting his station and character,” said the preacher; “elsewhere he maybe an useful and profitable member of the commonweal — here he is but a makebate, and a stumbling-block of offence.
The Abbot 2008
-
All this, as was most natural and proper, only stimulated the Lady’s curiosity; neither was her importunity to be parried with, — “Thank God, I am no makebate — no tale-bearer, — thank God, I never envied any one’s favour, or was anxious to propale their misdemeanour-only, thank God, there has been no bloodshed and murder in the house — that is all.”
The Abbot 2008
bilby commented on the word makebate
Troublesome, troublesome vegetation.
June 26, 2012