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# squabble

verb (squabble, squabbles, squabbled, squabbling); noun (a squabble, squabbles)

«squabble» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To squabble is to argue noisily about something small and unimportant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squabble/#m1)
2. A squabble is a small, silly argument. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squabble/#m2)

### In the lessons

In family life and stories, siblings squabble over the TV remote, the front seat or the last biscuit. Lessons on friends and families teach how to stop squabbling: take turns, share, listen. In the news, politicians' squabbles are minor quarrels. Birds such as seagulls squabble over food.

### Examples

- My brother and I squabbled over the last slice of pizza. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squabble/#x1)
- Stop squabbling and take turns! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squabble/#x2)
- The twins had a squabble about whose turn it was. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squabble/#x3)
- Seagulls squabbled over a chip on the beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squabble/#x4)
- The kids squabbled all the way to the seaside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squabble/#x5)
- It was just a little squabble; they were friends again by lunchtime. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squabble/#x6)
- The politicians squabbled about the new road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squabble/#x7)
- Without me they'll be orphans left, and from door to door have to beg their bread and squabble with dogs." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squabble/#x8)

### Note

Double b: squabble. Drop the e before -ing: squabbling. A squabble is smaller and sillier than a fight or a quarrel.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «squabble» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squabble/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«squabble» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/squabble.html) on Mova free.