squabbly

From squabble + -y.

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• Rhymes: -ɒbəli

squabbly (comparative more squabbly, superlative most squabbly)

1. Having the tendency to squabble, argumentative
   • 2000, Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd, The New Rank and File, page 125:

     We came to have paid staff, and had to go by rules and regulations and contracts, and things started to get squabbly

   • 1983, Frederick Vanderbilt Field, From Right to Left: An Autobiography, page 37:

     Perhaps the two girls were closer to each other, but Osgood and I were a squabbly pair of youngsters.