squabblesomeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

squabblesome (comparative more squabblesome, superlative most squabblesome)

1. Prone to squabble.

   Synonym: quarrelsome

   • 1919, Saki, “The Oversight” in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, p. 256,^[1]

     You can have Church of England and Unitarian and Buddhist under the same roof without courting disaster; the only Buddhist I ever had down here quarrelled with everybody, but that was on account of his naturally squabblesome temperament; it had nothing to do with his religion.