pick-quarrel

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Etymology[edit]

From pick +‎ quarrel.

Noun[edit]

pick-quarrel (plural pick-quarrels)

  1. (archaic) A quarrelsome person; one ready to pick quarrels.
    • 1849, The Parker Society:
      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 […]
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