[f. SQUABBLE v.] Squabbling; petty quarrelling.

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1731.  Gentl. Mag., I. 125. Any … Rablement, Brabblement, or Squabblement.

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1884.  Blackie, in Blackw. Mag., Feb., 235.

        Bags of windy speculation,
  Babblement of small and great,
Cheating, swindling, peculation,
  Squabblement of Church and State.

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