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Definition of Quarrelsome
1. Adjective. Given to quarreling. "Quarrelsome when drinking"
Definition of Quarrelsome
1. a. Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
Definition of Quarrelsome
1. Adjective. Argumentative; belligerent; contentious; given to quarreling. ¹
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Definition of Quarrelsome
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarrelsome
Literary usage of Quarrelsome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"wrangler, quarrelsome person, (n/a woman} termagant, ... adj. quarrelsome,
contentious, litigious, brawling. ..."
2. A History of France by George William Kitchin (1899)
"I. Louis X, 'THE quarrelsome,' AD 1314-1316. PHILIP died in the beginning of a
strong reaction against absolutism ; and his eldest son, Louis le Hutin, ..."
3. A History of France by George William Kitchin (1881)
"I. Louis X, 'THE quarrelsome,' AD 1314-1316. PHILIP died in the beginning of a
strong reaction against absolutism; and his eldest son, Louis le Hutin, ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"CHAPTER XXVII WHICH IS BOTH quarrelsome A\'D SENTIMENTAL CIVIL war was raging,
high words passing, people pushing and squeezing together in an unseemly ..."
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