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Word For The Day: BRABBLE
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Posted on 02/02/2016 6:16:32 PM PST by Louis Foxwell

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

BRABBLE [BRAB ul]

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noun

Brabble is loud, acrimonious wrangling. To brabble is to engage in quarrelsome arguments, usually stubborn ones, about trifles.

We get this word from the Dutch very brabbelen (to wrangle).

In Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (Act II, Scene 1), the Moot Aaron, beloved of the evil Tamora, Queen of the Goths, comes upon her sons Demetrius and Chiron, both smitten with Lavinia, Titus' daughter, wrangling and threatening each other. Aaron exclaims:

Away, I say!

This petty brabble will undo us all...

For shame, be friends....

And in King John (Act V, Scene 2), Dauphin, after listening to the Bastard's long plea for peace, says:

We grant thou canst outscold us. Fare thee well:

We hold our time too precious to be spent

With such a brabbler....


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1 posted on 02/02/2016 6:16:32 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
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To: Louis Foxwell

The brabble between Trump and Cruz supporters is music to the ears of Hillary and the GOPe.


2 posted on 02/02/2016 6:19:07 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Louis Foxwell

The absence of rabble
Who constantly babble
Will help keep the place
From becoming a Brabble


3 posted on 02/02/2016 6:19:18 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Louis Foxwell; xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

What precious time we have could not be better spent than in a dervish brabble of point counter point. In the morning - tea, cakes and genuinely deserved awards.


4 posted on 02/02/2016 6:19:52 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The last debate turned into a brabble bath.


5 posted on 02/02/2016 6:24:52 PM PST by disndat
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

The brabble between CRUZ and TRUMP supporters is a game of “let you and him fight” created by the establishment so their candidate will come out on top !


6 posted on 02/02/2016 6:25:34 PM PST by hoosiermama (Make America Great Again by uniting Great Americans)
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To: left that other site

Beautiful poemetry!

A more pebblian application: The brambles grew up through the brabble and rubble along the sides of the hilly road.


7 posted on 02/02/2016 6:32:47 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

All the brabble about who got “knocked out” in the Iowa Caucuses won’t amount to a hill of beans in a week or so!!!!

And the loudest contributors to all this brabble are merely babbling and babbling!!!!


8 posted on 02/02/2016 7:12:58 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

I homeschool a house full of children; some days the brabble is so constant that I’m sure they’ll end up as politicians!


9 posted on 02/02/2016 7:29:26 PM PST by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The constant brabble on Fox News has me tuning to PBS more and more. I do love those British dramas.


10 posted on 02/03/2016 1:53:57 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Louis Foxwell

PS — I LOVE this word. Kudos, Louis.


11 posted on 02/03/2016 1:55:22 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

whole lot of grabble goin on


12 posted on 02/03/2016 1:59:25 AM PST by woofie
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To: Louis Foxwell

The brabble at Babel scattered the rabble.


13 posted on 02/03/2016 3:06:37 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero

Or, to fulfill rule requirements:

Free Republic is Election Brabble Central.


14 posted on 02/03/2016 3:10:17 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Louis Foxwell

When I joined FR about a decade and a half ago, I used to love engaging in the brabble. Not so much anymore. I have managed to make some good friends along the way, however.


15 posted on 02/03/2016 4:11:03 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: Resettozero
Free Republic is Election Brabble Central.

LOL! I am not one to give official awards here at WFTD, but if I were, that would be a winner.

16 posted on 02/03/2016 4:11:53 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: NorthstarMom

God bless ya! I couldn’t imagine.


17 posted on 02/03/2016 4:12:39 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
A series of custom awards today:

The brabble of the rabble -

18 posted on 02/03/2016 5:05:42 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: left that other site
It is, indeed, the rabble who provide much of the brabble round here. All praise the rabble, for, without them we but babble.


19 posted on 02/03/2016 5:17:40 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: disndat
A "Brabble bath" eh? So here's a bath for you.


20 posted on 02/03/2016 5:20:36 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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