英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹæbəl/

動詞

brabble (三人称単数 現在形 brabbles, 現在分詞 brabbling, 過去形および過去分詞形 brabbled)

1. (dated) To clamour; to contest noisily.
   • 1598, John Stow, Survey of London, London: J.M. Dent, 1912, p. 362,^[1]

     Then next is the Clinke, a gaol or prison for the trespassers in those parts; namely, in old time, for such as should brabble, frey, or break the peace on the said bank, or in the brothel houses, they were by the inhabitants thereabout apprehended and committed to this gaol, where they were straitly imprisoned.

   • 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 141,^[2]

     Brabbling curs never want sore ears.

   • 1883, Edward Maunde Thompson, Preface to Diary of Richard Cocks, cape-merchant in the English factory in Japan, 1615-1622, London: Hakluyt Society, p. xxxvi,^[3]

     And it was not only with the English that the Dutch sailors quarrelled. They were drunken and riotous and “brabbled” in the streets, till at last the long-suffering Japanese lost patience and seizing two of them summarily cut off their heads.

2. To babble (of a stream または other watercourse).
   • 1902, Mary Johnston, Audrey, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Chapter 9, p. 121,^[4]

     Farther on, when they came to a miniature glen between the semblance of two hills, down which, in mockery of a torrent, brabbled a slim brown stream, MacLean stood still […]

   • 1921, Reginald Farrer, The Rainbow Bridge, London: E. Arnold & Co., Chapter 10, p. 181,^[5]

     Down in the middle, among mossy boulders, the beck brabbled through golden sheets of Draba […]

名詞

brabble (複数形 brabbles)

1. (dated) A brawl; a noisy contest; a wrangle.
   • c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     This petty brabble will undo us all.

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: Chapman and Hall Limited, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book または page number):

     What they, by this their journey to Versailles, do specially want? The twelve speakers reply, in few words inclusive of much: "Bread, and the end of these brabbles […] "

派生語

• brabbler