squabble英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A minor fight or argument.

— The children got into a squabble about who should ride in the front of the car.

动词 v.

To participate in a minor fight or argument; to quarrel. intransitive

— The brothers were always squabbling with each other.
To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment. transitive

— to squabble type

词形变化

squabbles plural squabbles present,singular,third-person squabbling participle,present squabbled participle,past squabbled past

词汇关系

近义词

squabble barney bicker quarrel wrangle argue tiff tift quibble row pettifog

下位词

stickle

衍生词

bum-squabble squabbler squabblesome squabblingly squaffle

词源

词源 1

The noun form first appears c. 1602, while the verbal form first appears c. 1616. Probably of North Germanic origin and ultimately imitative.
Related to Swedish dialectal skvabbel (“a dispute, quarrel, gossip”), Norwegian dialectal skvabba (“to prattle”), German dialectal schwabbeln (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal skvappa (“to chide, scold”, literally “make a splash”).

词源 2

The noun form first appears c. 1602, while the verbal form first appears c. 1616. Probably of North Germanic origin and ultimately imitative.
Related to Swedish dialectal skvabbel (“a dispute, quarrel, gossip”), Norwegian dialectal skvabba (“to prattle”), German dialectal schwabbeln (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal skvappa (“to chide, scold”, literally “make a splash”).