pick-quarrel

English

Alternative forms

• pickquarrel

Etymology

From pick +‎ quarrel.

Noun

pick-quarrel (plural pick-quarrels)

1. (archaic) A quarrelsome person; one ready to pick quarrels.
   • 1849, The Parker Society:

     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 […]