Quarrel vs Miff - What's the difference?
quarrel | miff |
A verbal dispute or heated argument.
* Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
A ground of dispute or objection; a complaint.
* Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him. - Bible, Mark vi. 19
* You mistake, sir. I am sure no man hath any quarrel to me.'' - Shakespeare, ''Twelfth Night , Act 3, scene 4
(obsolete) earnest desire or longing.
To disagree.
To contend, argue strongly, squabble.
* Sir W. Temple
To find fault; to cavil.
* Roscommon
(obsolete) To argue or squabble with.
* Ben Jonson
A diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window.
A square tile; quarry tile.
A square-headed arrow for a crossbow.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book VII, ciii:
*:Twanged the string, out flew the quarrel long, / And through the subtle air did singing pass.
*Sir (John Mandeville) (c.1350)
*:to shoot with arrows and quarrel
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:two arblasts,with windlaces and quarrels
*1829 , (Edward Augustus Kendall),
*:The small cross-bow, called the arbalet or arbalest, is said to have been invented by the Sicilians. It was carried by the foot-soldiers, and when used was charged with a quarrel or bar-bolt, that is, a small arrow with a flat head, one of which occasioned the death of Harold at the battle of Hastings,.
*2000 . , p.379
*:Satin scooped up his crossbow and sent a few quarrel s after them as they ran, to see them off the faster.
A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps etc. make the form nearly square.
A four-sided cutting tool or chisel with a diamond-shaped end.
A small argument, quarrel.
* 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
* 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
A state of being offended.
* 1851, T. S. Arthur, Off-Hand Sketches
(usually used in the passive) to offend slightly
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* 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
* 1911, James Oliver Curwood, Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
to become slightly offended
* 1905, George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable
As nouns the difference between quarrel and miff
is that quarrel is a verbal dispute or heated argument or quarrel can be a diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window while miff is a small argument, quarrel.As verbs the difference between quarrel and miff
is that quarrel is to disagree while miff is (usually used in the passive) to offend slightly.quarrel
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) querele (modern French querelle), itself from (etyl) . Replaced (etyl) sacan by 1340 as “ground for complaint”.Noun
(en noun)- We got into a silly quarrel about what food to order.
- A few customers in the shop had some quarrel s with us, so we called for the manager.
- (Holland)
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(intransitive)- Beasts called sociable quarrel in hunger and lust.
- to quarrel with one's lot
- I will not quarrel with a slight mistake.
- I had quarrelled my brother purposely.
Derived terms
* quarreler, quarreller * quarrelsomeEtymology 2
From (etyl) as "square-headed bolt for a crossbow" c.1225, from (etyl) quarel (modern French carreau), from , related to quattuor "four".Noun
(en noun)The Olio or Museum of Entertainment, Vol.III, p.174
See also
* (wikipedia) * quarlmiff
English
Noun
(en noun)- nay, she would throw it in the teeth of Allworthy himself, when a little quarrel, or miff , as it is vulgarly called, arose between them.
- John Wildway and I had a miff and parted;...
- She's taken a miff at something, I suppose, and means to cut my acquaintance.
Verb
(en verb)- ... answered my Thetis, a little miffed perhaps -- to use the women's phrase -- that I turned the conversation upon my former partner, rather than addressed it to herself.
- "Don't get miffed about it, man," returned Nome with an irritating laugh.
- She miffed and started to reply, but thought better of it.