pick-quarrel
English
Alternative forms
- pickquarrel
Etymology
From pick + quarrel.
Noun
pick-quarrel (plural pick-quarrels)
- (archaic) A quarrelsome person; one ready to pick quarrels.
- 1849, The Parker Society:
- 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 […]