Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who quarrels, wrangles, or fights.

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  • noun One who quarrels or is disposed to do so. An arguer or disputer.

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  • noun a disputant who quarrels

Etymologies

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to quarrel + -er

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Examples

  • Essence, and a quarreler with his best friend, dies like

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • So goddamn the number eight eleven nine and four choir boys and monsignors preachers and men of state goddamn them it's too late free man and prisoner soft voice and quarreler

    languagehat.com: MALDIGO/GODDAM. 2004

  • He takes the quarreler apart into his library, and then one can hear a shouting voice alternating with silences.

    Slightly Married Balogh, Mary 2003

  • But a man is more ashamed to be a flatterer than a quarreler.

    Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

  • Reply Obj. 1: Just as the flatterer may do harm by deceiving secretly, so the quarreler may do harm sometimes by assailing openly.

    Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

  • Wouk takes on not only Feynman - "my kind of agnostic," he jokes-but also a couple of other Jewish physicists and Nobel laureates, Murray Gell-Mann ( "a Nobel-class tackler of problems, but for him the existence of God is not one of them") and Steven Weinberg ( "a quarreler with God in the vein of Job").

    Articles webmaster@jewishjournal.com 2010

  • Wouk takes on not only Feynman - "my kind of agnostic," he jokes-but also a couple of other Jewish physicists and Nobel laureates, Murray Gell-Mann ( "a Nobel-class tackler of problems, but for him the existence of God is not one of them") and Steven Weinberg ( "a quarreler with God in the vein of Job").

    Articles webmaster@jewishjournal.com 2010

  • His influence among the frontiersmen was unbounded, his word was law; and many are the personal quarrels and disturbances which he has checked among his comrades by his simple announcement that 'This has gone far enough,' ” if need be followed by the ominous warning that when persisted in or renewed the quarreler 'must settle it with me.'

    The Life of Hon William F Cody Cody, William F 1879

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