quarrel
English
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒɹ(ə)l/Category:English 2-syllable words#QUARRELCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#QUARREL
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#QUARRELAudio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General American) enPR: kwôrʹəl, IPA(key): /ˈkwɔɹəl/Category:English 2-syllable words#QUARRELCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#QUARREL
- (New York City) enPR: kwŏrʹəl, IPA(key): /ˈkwɑɹəl/Category:English 2-syllable words#QUARRELCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#QUARREL
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#QUARRELAudio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɹəlCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒɹəl#QUARRELCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒɹəl/2 syllables#QUARREL
- Hyphenation: quar‧rel
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#QUARRELCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱwes-#QUARRELFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#QUARRELCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#QUARREL querele (“altercation, dispute; argument, debate; armed combat; trial by combat; basis for dispute, complaint; claim, legal suit; a lament; illness”) [and other forms],[1] from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#QUARREL querele [and other forms] and Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#QUARREL querele, querelle (“altercation, dispute; basis for dispute; side in a dispute; complaint; accusation; legal suit; lament; problem”) (modern French querelle), and from their etymon LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#QUARREL querēla, querella (“dispute; argument; complaint, grievance; legal complaint; lament; illness”), from querī + -ēla, -ella (suffix forming nouns).[2] querī (“to complain; to bewail, lament; to be indignant”) comes from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#QUARREL *ḱwes- (“to puff; to sigh”).
Noun
quarrel (countable and uncountable, plural quarrels)Category:English lemmas#QUARRELCategory:English nouns#QUARRELCategory:English uncountable nouns#QUARRELCategory:English countable nouns#QUARRELCategory:English countable nouns#QUARRELCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#QUARRELCategory:Pages with entries#QUARRELCategory:Pages with 1 entry#QUARREL
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#QUARREL) A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dispute
- We got into a silly quarrel about what food to order.Category:English terms with usage examples#QUARREL
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Trauaile”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 104:
- And let a Man bevvare, hovv he keepeth Company, vvith Cholerick and Quarelſome Perſons; for they vvill engage him into their ovvne Quarels.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 1851, Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld [i.e., François de La Rochefoucauld], translated by [anonymous], Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld. […], New York, N.Y.: William Gowans, →OCLC, number 523, page 140:
- Quarrels would not last long, if the fault was only on one side.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 1955 February, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 79:
- But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 2016 June 17, John O’Sullivan, “U.K. Membership in the European Union”, in C-SPAN, 4:34 from the start, archived from the original on 23 December 2020:
- All quarrels halt at the grave.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#QUARREL) Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
- A few customers in the shop had some quarrels with us, so we called for the manager.Category:English terms with usage examples#QUARREL
- I have no quarrel with her; it’s her partner whom I dislike.Category:English terms with usage examples#QUARREL
- 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I:
- I maruaile much my Lords what rage it is,Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
That moues my people whom I loue ſo deare,
Vnder a ſhow of quarrell good and iust,
To riſe againſt vs thus in mutinies, […]
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 269, column 1:
- You miſtake ſir I am ſure, no man hath any quarrell to me: my remembrance is very free and cleere from any image of offence done to any man.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 6:19, column 1:
- Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him [John the Baptist], and would haue killed him, but ſhe could not.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 10–11:
- I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute. We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party. But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 1976 December 4, Robert Chesley, “"Streamers" Deals with Gay Triangle”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 23, page 11:
- The material is powerful, though more theatrical than realistic. The writing is good. On thinking the play over, however, I came up with a few quarrels with it, and I wonder if to some Rabe has not attempted to cover some weaknesses in construction with the sensationalism of shocking bloodshed.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- (rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#QUARREL, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#QUARREL) A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 30:
- If I can faſten but one cup vpon him, / With that which he hath drunke to night already, / Hee'll be as full of quarrell and offence, / As my young miſtris dog:— [...]Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 32, verso:
- [A]ll beaſts and birds aſſembled; and forgetting their ſeuerall appetites; ſome of pray, ſome of game, ſome of quarrell, ſtood all ſociably together liſtening vnto the ayres and accords of the Harpe; […]Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
Alternative forms
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Translations
dispute or heated argument
basis or ground of dispute or objection — see also complaint
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Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#QUARRELCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#QUARREL querelen (“to dispute, quarrel; to assert one's claims; to rebel”) [and other forms], from querele (noun);[3] see etymology 1. Compare Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French quereler, quereller (“to argue with, dispute; to criticize; to bring a legal suit”) (modern French quereller (“to quarrel, squabble”)).[4]
Verb
quarrel (third-person singular simple present quarrels, present participle (US) quarreling or (UK) quarrelling, simple past and past participle (US) quarreled or (UK) quarrelled)Category:English lemmas#QUARRELCategory:English verbs#QUARRELCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#QUARRELCategory:Pages with entries#QUARRELCategory:Pages with 1 entry#QUARREL
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#QUARREL, also figuratively) To argue fiercely; to contend; to squabble; to cease to be on friendly terms, to fall out.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 41, verso:
- [T]here is no doubt but the facture or framing of the inward parts, is as full of difference, as the outward, and in that, is the Cauſe Continent of many diſeaſes, which not be obſerued, they quarrell many times with the humors which are not in fault, the fault being in the very frame and Mechanicke of the parte, which cannot be remoued by medicine alteratiue, but muſt be accomodate and palliate by dyets and medicines familiar.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 1679, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Original and Nature of Government. […]”, in Miscellanea. […], London: […] A. M. and R. R. for Edw[ard] Gellibrand, […], →OCLC, page 61:
- Nay, they [animals] feed quietly together while there is enough for them all: Quarrel onely when it begins to fail; and when 'tis ended, they ſcatter to ſeek out new encounters. Besides, thoſe called ſociable, quarrel in hunger and in luſt, as well as the others; [...]Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 147:
- I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and how mild he was; although he was a little, little child; we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#QUARREL) To find fault; to cavil.
- to quarrel with one’s lotCategory:English terms with usage examples#QUARREL
- 1680, Horace, translated by Earl of Roscommon [i.e., Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon], Horace’s Art of Poetry. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, page 24:
- Be not too rigidly Cenſorious, / A ſtring may jarr in the beſt Maſters hand, / And the moſt skilfull Archer miſs his aim; / But in a Poem elegantly writ, / I will not quarrel with a ſlight miſtake, / Such as our Natures frailty may excuſe; [...]Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#QUARREL, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#QUARREL) Followed by at: to disagree with; to take offence.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#QUARREL, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#QUARREL except ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#QUARREL) To argue or squabble with (someone).
- 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 21:
- [T]hey would ſay [...] that I had quarrell'd / My brother purpoſely, thereby to finde / An apt pretext, to baniſh them my houſe.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
Conjugation
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Translations
to argue strongly, contend, squabble
to cease to be on friendly terms — see fall out
to find fault — see also cavil
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Etymology 3
| PIE word |
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| *kʷetwóres |
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#QUARRELCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#QUARREL quarrel (“bolt for an arbalest, crossbow, or siege engine; (figurative) seductive glance, temptation to sin; needle (possibly one square in cross-section); small (perhaps square-shaped) opening in window tracery; a cushion (perhaps square-shaped)”) [and other forms],[5] from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#QUARREL quarel, quarele, quarrel, Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#QUARREL quarrel, and Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#QUARREL quarel, quarrel, carrel (“crossbow bolt; floor tile or paving stone (rectangular- or square-shaped); small glass pane for windows”) (modern French carreau (“crossbow bolt; a tile; windowpane; a square”)), from Late LatinCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#QUARREL quarellus, quadrellus (“crossbow bolt; paving stone; a tile”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#QUARREL quadrum (“a square; square section; regular shape or form”) + -ellus (variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutive nouns, indicating small size or youth)).[6] Quadrum is ultimately derived from quattuor (“four”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#QUARREL *kʷetwóres (“four”). Doublet of carreauCategory:English doublets#QUARREL.
Noun
quarrel (countable and uncountable, plural quarrels)Category:English lemmas#QUARRELCategory:English nouns#QUARRELCategory:English uncountable nouns#QUARRELCategory:English countable nouns#QUARRELCategory:English countable nouns#QUARRELCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#QUARRELCategory:Pages with entries#QUARRELCategory:Pages with 1 entry#QUARREL
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#QUARREL, archeryCategory:en:Archery#QUARREL, historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#QUARREL) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (“a late, large type of crossbow”), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Seuenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 103, page 137:
- Twanged the ſtring, out flew the quarell long, / And through the ſubtile aire did ſinging pas, / It hit the knight the buckles rich among, / Wherewith his pretious girdle faſt'ned was, / It bruſed them and pearſt his hawberke ſtrong, / Some little blood downe trickled on the gras; [...]Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIV, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 281:
- Here be two arblasts, comrade, with windlaces and quarrells—to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 1829 January–July, [Edward Augustus Kendall], “Illustrations of History. Archery.”, in The Olio; or Museum of Entertainment, volume III, London: […] Shackell and Carfrae [for] Joseph Shackell, […], →OCLC, page 174, column 2:
- The small cross-bow, called the arbalet or arbalest, is said to have been invented by the Sicilians. It was carried by the foot-soldiers, and when used was charged with a quarrel or bar-bolt, that is, a small arrow with a flat head, one of which occasioned the death of Harold [Godwinson] at the battle of Hastings, [...]Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “How the Yellow Cog Fought the Two Rover Galleys”, in The White Company […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 71:
- "What was that?" he asked, as a hissing, sharp-drawn voice seemed to whisper in his ear. The steersman smiled, and pointed with his foot to where a short heavy cross-bow quarrel stuck quivering in the boards.Category:English terms with quotations#QUARREL
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#QUARREL, architectureCategory:en:Architecture#QUARREL) A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.
- Synonym: quarry
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#QUARREL, Northern EnglandCategory:Northern England English#QUARREL, architectureCategory:en:Architecture#QUARREL) A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#QUARREL) such tiles collectively.
- Synonym: (archaic) quarry
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#QUARREL, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#QUARREL, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#QUARREL) A cutting tool or chisel with a diamond- or square-shaped end.
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#QUARREL, architectureCategory:en:Architecture#QUARREL, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#QUARREL) A small square-shaped opening in window tracery.
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Translations
arrow or bolt for a crossbow or arbalest
diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window
small square-shaped opening in window tracery
square tile — see also quarry tile
References
- ↑ “querē̆le, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ↑ “quarrel, n.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2007.; “quarrel1, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. - ↑ “querē̆len, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ↑ “quarrel, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2007; “quarrel1, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ↑ “quarrel, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ↑ “quarrel, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2007; “quarry2, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
quarrel (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - crossbow bolt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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