Definition of "squabble"

squabble

/ˈskwɒbl/

noun
plural squabbles
1. A minor fight or argument.
verb
third-person singular simple present squabbles, present participle squabbling, simple past and past participle squabbled
1. (intransitive) To participate in a minor fight or argument; to quarrel.
  Quotations
  The sense of these propositions is very plain and easy, though logicians might perhaps squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.
  1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726
2. (transitive, printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.