squabblesome
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[edit]squabblesome (comparative more squabblesome, superlative most squabblesome)
- Prone to squabble.
- Synonym: quarrelsome
- 1919, Saki, “The Oversight”, in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers[1], London: John Lane the Bodley Head, page 256:
- You can have Church of England and Unitarian and Buddhist under the same roof without courting disaster; the only Buddhist I ever had down here quarrelled with everybody, but that was on account of his naturally squabblesome temperament; it had nothing to do with his religion.