breedbate

noun

breedbate

noun

Etymology From breed + bate.

1

Obsolete, Rare Someone who causes quarrels; a quarreler

No telltale nor no breedbate.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

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