quarrel
intransitive verb
Noun (2)
Verb
quarrel, wrangle, altercation, squabble mean a noisy dispute usually marked by anger.
quarrel implies heated verbal contention, stressing strained or severed relations which may persist beyond the contention.
wrangle suggests undignified and often futile disputation with a noisy insistence on differing opinions.
altercation implies fighting with words as the chief weapon, although it may also connote blows.
squabble stresses childish and unseemly dispute over petty matters, but it need not imply bitterness or anger.
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Anglo-French, square block of stone, bolt, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellum, diminutive of Latin quadrum square — more at quadrate
Middle English querele, from Anglo-French, from Latin querela grievance, complaint, from queri to complain
13th century, in the meaning defined above
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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