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Word For The Day: BRABBLE
2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words
| Norman Schur
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]
hear it pronounced
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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To: Louis Foxwell
Candidates babble,
Out toward the rabble,
With forked tongue in cheek,
at least twice a week,
In hopes to make brabble.
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posted on
02/03/2016 5:35:24 AM PST
by
MortMan
(I am offended by those who believe they have a right not to be offended.)
To: hoosiermama
So many to choose from. Here's you rebel rabble rouser:
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posted on
02/03/2016 5:39:37 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: Louis Foxwell
Hillary and Bernie sitting in a tree
Two Comrades both claiming victory.
It's an aging hippie squabble
A geriatric kind of brabble
A fight to the death for the Democratic party.
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posted on
02/03/2016 5:40:30 AM PST
by
tioga
To: tioga
24
posted on
02/03/2016 5:44:08 AM PST
by
TheCause
("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Peblian indeed, a worthy contribution adding bramble to our lexicon.
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posted on
02/03/2016 5:50:29 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: Honorary Serb
Another sort of bubbling activity:
>
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posted on
02/03/2016 5:56:18 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: NorthstarMom
Brabbling politicians, very good.
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:01:15 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: Resettozero
It did indeed.
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:07:06 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
And don’t forget my favorite FR Thread, APOD, from the Hubble!
But I’m rambling...
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:14:33 AM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Resettozero
I have been expecting a post like yours. Agreed, FR is brabble central. A graphic to demonstrate:
"You're about as useful as a poopy flavored lollipop," exclaimed Patches O'Houlihan to his useless and utterly pathetic dodgeball team.
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:20:03 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: MortMan
Excellent work. A tribute to brabbling.
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:22:09 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: Louis Foxwell
I was talking about Babbling, not Bubbling!!!!
Nevertheless, your “custom post” reminds me of the occult way in which the Hillary Witch defeated Bolshevik Bernie in the Iowa Caucuses!!!!
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:22:45 AM PST
by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: Travis T. OJustice
FR has been a home for strange bedfellows since its inception. I cherish the moments, many, many of them.
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:26:05 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: tioga
Acclaim and victory to you. A perfect tribute to a matched set of brabblers.
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:28:44 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: Travis T. OJustice
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:29:54 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: tioga
No no no. Brabble doesn’t rhyme with squabble.
(Unless brabble is pronounced with a proper Queen’s English accent...or...squabble is pronounced by a proper Southern mountain country hick such as I.)
To: Honorary Serb
Yes, yes, of course. I had bubbling on the brain.
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:33:58 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: left that other site
APOD is a continuing source of wonder.
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:35:57 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: Louis Foxwell
What happened in that photo...did someone refuse to get out of her sister’s bedroom? That’s all it takes here!
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:39:38 AM PST
by
NorthstarMom
(God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
To: Louis Foxwell
Per your graphic, there’s no way that would reach the heavens at that sharp an angle. Unless they were going to mount a telescoping building extension on top. Or they were all planning to wear really tall stilts. Or it housed a rocket. Maybe it was to be a hotel for visiting fallen angels.
Anyway, God didn’t like it.
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