Pick-quarrel
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A quarrelsome person; one ready to pick quarrels. archaic
"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 […]"
Example
More examples"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 […]"
Etymology
From pick + quarrel.
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