ˈbrabblement arch.
Also brable-.
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
Cavilling, quibbling (obs.); noisy quarrelling, contentious uproar (now chiefly dial.).
| 1556 Abp. Parker Psalter cvi. 16 They provokt with wrath..Aaron..wyth foolish brablementes. a 1563 Bale Sel. Wks. (1849) 176 Are not Christ and his disciples teachers sufficient enough..but we must have unsavoury brabblements? 1593 Nashe Christ's T. 68 b, Contention..is euer in Armes, neuer out of brabblements. 1824 Craven Dial. 23 Hees ollas agait o' some brabblement. 1876 Daily News 28 Sept. 5/3 The Commune was a time of extraordinary ‘brabblement’—to use a word of Carlyle's. |