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QUARRELING

Definition: QUARRELING

QUARRELING

Adjective

1. Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Quarrel

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "QUARRELING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)


Synonym: QUARRELING

Synonym: Arguments. (additional references)

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Crosswords: QUARRELING

English words defined with "QUARRELING": arguingquarrelsomeTo be at square. (references)
Specialty definitions using "QUARRELING": GunNAPOLEONQuarrelSawdustTable. (references)

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Commercial Usage: QUARRELING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Liberalism in the Bedroom: Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima (reference)

  • Papa Smurf and the Quarreling Contest (reference)

  • Quarreling Kids (reference)

  • Quibbling Siblings: Understanding Quarreling and Competition (reference)

  • The Quarreling Book (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: QUARRELING

ThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Familiar Quotations: QUARRELING

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Modern Translation: QUARRELING

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

   

Romanian

  

ajunge cu cearta (have done quarreling). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

svađanje (fall out, kick up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

peleón (bully, quarrelling, quarrelsome, scrapper, scrappy), disputas (contentions, quarrelling). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

çekişme (bickering, chaffer, cliffhanger, competition, conflict, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, debate, duel, fight, rivalry, strife, tug of war). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: QUARRELING

Misspellings

"QUARRELING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: quarrling. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "QUARRELING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "QUARRELING" (pronounced kwÄ"ruling)
5-r u l i ngbarreling, imperiling, spiraling, spiralling.
4-u l i ngambling, 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 ngailing, 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.

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Anagrams: QUARRELING

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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