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Quarrel
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dustup
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Word definitions for dustup in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"fight," 1897, from dust + up ; perhaps from dust "confusion, disturbance" (1590s). To dust (someone's) coat was ironical for "to beat (someone) soundly" (1680s).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context informal English) A scuffle or fight. 2 (context informal by extension English) An argument or dispute.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" [syn: quarrel , wrangle , row , words , run-in ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
dustup \dust"up\ n. an angry dispute. Syn: quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in.
Usage examples of dustup.
Nobody had gone through since the dustup with Jose and Carlos started.
He was far past the age where he could face the possibility of a dustup with one young man, let alone two.
They had to finish this dustup quickly, for more guards might spill through the door at any time.
He had got a look inside one or two of them during some of the Settlertown dustups, and even ridden in one of them.
I normally did not even carry it, considering the normal life-and-death dustups not worth this price of winning.
Like bloody hell, Austin thought, and it didn't take a master intellect, once Capella showed at the lock, to predict it had to do with the dustup on the dock, that the dustup had a lot to do with Christian asking extra security outside, and had a damned lot to do with Christian's scouring around and making more noise on the information market than Corinthian habitually liked.