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Squabbler

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A person who squabbles.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler; a noisy disputant.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. someone who quarrels about a small matter

Word Usage

"Now I have a much better picture of the man: a jumped-up, self-righteous student politician who is no longer a student, a political activist who can't connect with or persuade real people in the court of public opinion, a petty squabbler who hasn't yet outgrown the childish antics of leftist street theatre and pie-throwing."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

malcontent

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

brawler