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Adjective: quarrelling  kwor-u-ling or kwó-ru-ling [N. Amer], kwó-ru-ling [Brit]
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: quarreling)
  1. Likely to quarrel or often arguing
    "quarrelling when drinking";
    - quarrelsome, quarreling [US]
     
  2. Engaged in an argument or dispute; characterized by disagreement
    "The quarrelling siblings refused to speak to each other for days";
    - quarreling [US]
Verb: quarrel (quarrelled,quarrelling, or [US] quarreled,quarreling)  kwor-ul or kwó-rul [N. Amer], kwó-rul [Brit]
  1. Engage in a heated argument or dispute
    "We quarrelled over the question as to who discovered America";
    - dispute, scrap, argufy [informal], altercate [archaic], row[2]

See also: argumentative

Type of: argue, contend, debate, fence

Encyclopedia: Quarrel