Brabble

Then they divided the gold and jewels between them; but a brabble arose between them concerning the enchanted saddle bags, Sálim saying, “I will have them;” and Salím, saying, “I will take them;” and they came to high words. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When you asked one another (the first time) what was become of me; I was hard by you: at the most, within the distance of two yards length; and perceiving that you saw mee not, (being still so neere, and alwaies before you:) I went on, smiling to my selfe, to heare you brabble and rage against me. ❋ Unknown (2004)

[Illustration] "What monstrous brabble is this, you mad bitch?" he retorted, grunting as I bear-hugged his waist, shouldering the cuirass to squeeze it home. ❋ Fritz Leiber (1951)

Beginning with that brabble over the “gray cloth gowne,” there must have gone on in Hudson's party the same bickerings and wranglings that went on in Greely's party, and the same development of small animosities into burning hatreds. ❋ Janvier, Thomas A (1909)

'Braver hearts never beat in English breasts, yet do but mark how they brabble and clamour like clowns on a Saturday night. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

But now Patricia confessed to a restless longing for the sight of city streets and the brabble of city noises. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)

"I tell you I'm not to be mollified by any woman's brabble," blustered Lee. ❋ Paul Leicester Ford (1883)

Beginning with that brabble over the "gray cloth gowne," there must have gone on in Hudson's party the same bickerings and wranglings that went on in Greely's party, and the same development of small animosities into burning hatreds. ❋ Unknown (1881)

His wrath at their babble and petty brabble doubted that they did. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Then they divided the gold and jewels between them; but a brabble arose between them concerning the enchanted saddle bags, Sálim saying, "I will have them;" and ❋ Anonymous (1855)

That includes kicking out some "tremendous" words that have fallen out of use, the OED regretfully noted, including brabble ("paltry noisy quarrel") and growlery ("place to growl in, private room, den -- what we might call a man cave these days"). ❋ Unknown (2011)

‘ordinance’ and ‘ordnance’; ‘shallop’ and ‘sloop’; ‘brabble’ and ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)