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Definition: QUARRELING |
QUARRELINGAdjective1. Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Quarrel |
Date "QUARRELING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: QUARRELINGSynonym: Arguments. (additional references) |
Crosswords: QUARRELING |
| English words defined with "QUARRELING": arguing ♦ quarrelsome ♦ To be at square. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "QUARRELING": Gun ♦ NAPOLEON ♦ Quarrel ♦ Sawdust ♦ Table. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Man with broken bike quarreling with another who has dropped a stone. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Edmund Burke | People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "QUARRELING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متخاصم (disputed), متشاجر (scuffing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 争吵 (Brawl, Brawled, Brawling, Quarrel, Quarreled, Quarrelled, Quarrelling, Wrangled, Wrangling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ruveta riitelemään (start quarreling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | qui se dispute, disputes (quarrels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zankend (bickering, brawling, scolding, squabbling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鼻突き合い , 口舌 (curtain lecture, talking recklessly, tongue, words), 口争い . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くぜつ (curtain lecture, lover's tiff, September, talking recklessly, tongue, words), くちあらそい, "うぜつ (curtain lecture, talking recklessly, tongue, words), はなつきあい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 싸움 (Battling, Combating, Quarrel, Quarrelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arrelingquay ajunge cu cearta (have done quarreling). (various references) svađanje (fall out, kick up). (various references) peleón (bully, quarrelling, quarrelsome, scrapper, scrappy), disputas (contentions, quarrelling). (various references) çekişme (bickering, chaffer, cliffhanger, competition, conflict, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, debate, duel, fight, rivalry, strife, tug of war). (various references) сварливий (angular, cantankerous, contentious, currish, doggish, frumpish, grumpy, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, peevish, pugnacious, quarrelling, quarrelsome, shrewish, termagant, ugly), ворогуючий (feudal, quarrelling, repugnant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"QUARRELING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: quarrling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "QUARRELING" (pronounced kwÄ"ruling) |
| 5 | -r u l i ng | barreling, imperiling, spiraling, spiralling. |
| 4 | -u l i ng | ambling, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, battling, belittling, bicycling, boggling, bottling, bristling, bubbling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, bustling, cackling, canceling, cancelling, channeling, chortling, circling, coddling, commingling, counseling, cradling, crippling, crumbling, cycling, dabbling, dangling, dazzling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, dwindling, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, entitling, equaling, fizzling, fondling, fumbling, funneling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, groveling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hassling, hobbling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hustling, idling, initialing, intermingling, jiggling, jostling, juggling, labeling, leveling, mangling, marshaling, meddling, middling, mingling, mislabeling, modeling, mottling, muddling, mumbling, muscling, nibbling, paddling, paneling, parceling, pedaling, peddling, piddling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quibbling, raveling, recycling, redoubling, refueling, remodeling, resembling, reshuffling, reveling, rippling, rivaling, ruffling, rumbling, saddling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, settling, shriveling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, squabbling, stapling, stenciling, strangling, struggling, stumbling, swiveling, tabling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, traveling, travelling, trembling, tripling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twinkling, unraveling, unsettling, waggling, warbling, wiggling, wobbling, wrangling, wrinkling, yodeling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, beguiling, Belling, billing, blackmailing, boiling, Bolling, bowling, brawling, broiling, buckling, burgling, burling, cajoling, calling, Carling, ceiling, chilling, chronicling, chuckling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, crawling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, darling, dawdling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, drilling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, earthling, emailing, enrolling, entailing, entangling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, galling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, growling, hailing, handling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, holing, howling, hurling, hurtling, inhaling, inkling, installing, instilling, jailing, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, Marling, Melling, milling, mishandling, misspelling, mothballing, mulling, nailing, needling, nestling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, peeling, pickling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, quelling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, reeling, regaling, rekindling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruling, rustling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shuffling, sibling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squealing, stalling, starling, startling, stealing, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strickling, stripling, strolling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, Tilling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, trailing, trampling, trickling, trifling, trilling, trolling, twiddling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, wailing, walling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiling, willing, wrestling, yearling, yelling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-q-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: equaling, gnarlier. | |
-3 letters: aligner, angrier, earring, engrail, glarier, grainer, granule, linguae, nargile, quarrel, quinela, rangier, realign, rearing, reginal, regular, unagile. | |
-4 letters: aliner, angler, arguer, earing, erring, gainer, garner, genial, glaire, gluier, guinea, irreal, lagune, langue, langur, larger, larine, ligure, linage, linear, linger, lingua, lunger, lunier, luring, nailer, neural, nilgau, railer, ranger, raring, reagin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-q-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: quarrelling. | |
+2 letters: relacquering. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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