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squabble (verb), squabbles; squabbled; squabbling
1. To loudly argue about something that is neither important nor significant: Jim and his brother, Arthur, were squabbling over who would pay for the lunch that day.
2. Etymology: from a Scandinavian source, related to Swedish dialectal skvabbel, "to dispute, to quarrel."
To noisily complain or quarrel about some insignificant issue.
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To fight noisily over small matter.
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