Squabble

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1600s, probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish dialectal skvabbel(“a dispute, quarrel, gossip”), Norwegian dialectal skvabba(“to prattle”), German dialectal schwabbeln(“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal skvappa(“to chide, scold”, literally “make a splash”).


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squabble (n.)

c. 1600, probably from a Scandinavian source and of imitative origin (compare dialectal Swedish skvabbel "a quarrel, a dispute," dialectal German schwabbeln "to babble, prattle"). The verb also is from c. 1600. Related: Squabbled; squabbling.