[f. BRABBLE v.]

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  1.  † a. Cavilling, ‘hair-splitting’ (obs.). b. Wrangling, noisy quarrelling.

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1532.  More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 410/2. To beare and abide the brablyng of Tindals tonge.

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1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst. (1634), Pref. With … sophisticall brabblings.

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1614.  Raleigh, Hist. World, I. 172. The brabblings of the Aristotelians.

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1645.  in Somers, Tracts, I. 35. The Trade of Brabbling and Pettifogging.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., I. III. iii. 148. Brabblings, scufflings, objurgations.

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  † 2.  A confusion, a jumble. Obs.–0

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1530.  Palsgr., 617/2. I make a brablyng, je barbouille.

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