Obs. [ad. F. brigueur, f. briguer: see BRIGUE v.] A contentious person, a quarrelsome wrangler.
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de W.), X. x. 385/2. There shal no shrewe, no bryger, no lechour … entre in to this cyte.
c. 1600. Burel, Pilgr., in Watson’s Coll. Poems, II. 46 (Jam.). As bregers and tygers, Delyts in blud to be.
