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Squabble

May 11, 2022

squabble

squab-ble / skwŏb-əl

noun 1. a noisy quarrel about something petty or trivial Time cures sorrows and petty squabbles, because we all change and are no longer the same persons. Blaise Pascal, 1623 - 1662 verb 1. to quarrel over something trivial We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again. Hippolyte Taine, 1828 - 1893
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