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TO PICK A QUARREL

Definition: TO PICK A QUARREL

TO PICK A QUARREL

1. To give occasion of quarrel intentionally.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: TO PICK A QUARREL

Language Translations for "TO PICK A QUARREL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Streit anfangen mit (to pick a quarrel with, to start (pick) a quarrel with, to start a quarrel with). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

beleköt vkibe (to pick a quarrel with sy, to pick at sy, to pick up a quarrel with sy), összevész vkivel (have a tiff with sy, to come to loggerheads with sy, to fall foul of sy, to fall out with sy, to pick a quarrel with sy, to pick up a quarrel with sy). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

愚図る (to be unsettled, to grumble). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぐずる (to be unsettled, to grumble). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay ickpay aay arrelquay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO PICK A QUARREL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-k-l-o-p-q-r-r-t-u"

-4 letters: curatorial, equatorial, particular, praetorial, replicator.

-5 letters: acropetal, aleatoric, apiculate, articular, auctorial, capitular, courtlier, creatural, curtailer, erratical, opercular, peculator, portulaca, precoital, raptorial, rectorial, reticular, retropack.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO PICK A QUARREL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      50 49 43 4B      41      51 55 41 52 52 45 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010000 01001001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01000001 00100000 01010001 01010101 01000001 01010010 01010010 01000101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#80 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#32 &#65 &#32 &#81 &#85 &#65 &#82 &#82 &#69 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0050 0049 0043 004B      0041      0051 0055 0041 0052 0052 0045 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449250433745235251553552523946

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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