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Squalor vs Squabble - What's the difference?

squalor | squabble |

As nouns the difference between squalor and squabble

is that squalor is squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity while squabble is a minor fight or argument as between children, for example.

As a verb squabble is

to participate in a minor fight or argument.

squalor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.
  • * The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor . -- Taylor
  • * To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. -- Dickens
  • ** Dickens also used the term to refer to those living in Squalor, such as those in the slums.

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    squabble

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A minor fight or argument as between children, for example.

    • Derived terms

    * squabbly

    Verb

    (squabbl)
  • To participate in a minor fight or argument.
    • ''The brothers were always squabbling with each other.
  • * I. Watts
    • The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.
  • (printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
    • to squabble type

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * squabbler