pick-quarrel

noun

pick-quarrel

noun

Etymology From pick + quarrel.

1

Archaic A quarrelsome person; one ready to pick quarrels.

And on the other side, cursed be the peace-breakers, pickquarrels, whisperers, backbiters, sowers of discord, dispraisers of them that be good, to bring them out of favour, interpreters to evil that is done for a good purpose, finders of faults where none is […]1849, The Parker Society:

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