Obs. rare–1. [Of obscure origin.] intr. ? To quarrel, wrangle. ? Hence Warbling vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1600. Holland, Livy, X. xl. 382. There arose some warbling [altercatio] amongst the chicken-maisters touching the auspice … of that day.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., i. 2. [He] can crowd and chawe from his warbling waspishnes, this stinging censure of absurd vntrueth.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Gen. xvi. 5 (1650), 130. These couples that are ever warbling, can neither be at peace within themselves,… nor pray as they should do to God,… which if they did often … they could not disagree.
