“quarrel、picker”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

quarrel-picker

释义

† quarrel-picker, -piker Obs.
[f. the phr. to pick a quarrel: cf. quarrel n.³ 2 and pick v.]
1. One who picks quarrels; a quarrelsome person.
1547Coverdale Old Faith To Rdr. A vij, Then shall we be no Quarrellpykerrs.1551T. Wilson Logike 46 These quarelpickers, these roysters, and fighters.1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 780 A company of corner-creepers, spider-catchers, fault-finders, and quarrell-pickers.
2. slang. (With pun on quarrel n.¹ 3; cf. quarreller b.) A glazier.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew.
So quarrel-picking, -piking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1557N.T. (Genev.) Acts xvii. 7 note, Like quarelpiking they vsed against Christe.1591R. Turnbull Exp. James Ep. Ded. A iv b, Reprochfull censure,..without quarrell-picking.1894Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 3/2 A..dining, quarrel-picking, and duelling club.

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