Brabbler


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Brab´bler


n.1.A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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His high-blown rhetoric at act 5, scene 2, lines 17-58 is interestingly commented on by King Lewis: "We hold our time too precious to be spent / With such a brabbler" (162).
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