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pick-quarrels

pick-quarrels is the plural of pick-quarrel.

Meaning of pick-quarrel

Noun

pick-quarrel (plural pick-quarrels)

  1. (archaic) A quarrelsome person; one ready to pick quarrels.
    • And on the other side, cursed be the peace-breakers, pickquarrels, whisperers, backbiters, sowers of discord, dispraisers of them that be good, to bring them out of favour, interpreters to evil that is done for a good purpose, finders of faults where none is […]1849, The Parker Society

Questions about pick-quarrels

What is pick-quarrels the plural of?
Pick-quarrels is the plural of pick-quarrel.

Words near pick-quarrels in the dictionary

  1. pick-pocketing
  2. pick-pockets
  3. pick-purse
  4. pick-purses
  5. pick-quarrel
  6. pick-quarrels
  7. pick-six
  8. pick-sixes
  9. pick-to-belt
  10. pick-to-box
  11. pick-to-cart

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