squabbly

adj

squabbly

adj

Etymology From squabble + -y.

1

Having the tendency to squabble, argumentative

  • We came to have paid staff, and had to go by rules and regulations and contracts, and things started to get squabbly2000, Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd, The New Rank and File, page 125:
  • Perhaps the two girls were closer to each other, but Osgood and I were a squabbly pair of youngsters.1983, Frederick Vanderbilt Field, From Right to Left: An Autobiography, page 37:

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