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Altercation vs Barney - What's the difference?

altercation | barney |

As nouns the difference between altercation and barney

is that altercation is warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest while barney is a noisy argument.

As a proper noun Barney is

a given name derived from surnames, and a diminutive of Barnabas, Barnaby, Bernard, or Barnett.

As a verb barney is

to argue, to quarrel.

altercation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
  • * (rfdate), Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    • "What the hell is it to you who are my friends?" roared McMurdo in a voice which brought every head in the carriage round to witness the altercation .

    Synonyms

    * dispute, wrangle

    barney

    Translingual

    Proper noun

    (mul-proper noun)
  • A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist E.E. Barney (fl. 1877-79).

    • External links

    * Author query of the International Plant Names Index ----