Obs. [f. the phr. to pick a quarrel: cf. QUARREL sb.3 2 and PICK v.]
1. One who picks quarrels; a quarrelsome person.
1547. Coverdale, Old Faith, To Rdr. A vij. Then shall we be no Quarrellpykerrs.
1551. T. Wilson, Logike, 46. These quarelpickers, these roysters, and fighters.
1608. Topsell, Serpents (1658), 780. A company of corner-creepers, spider-catchers, fault-finders, and quarrell-pickers.
2. Slang. (With pun on QUARREL sb.1 3; cf. QUARRELLER b.) A glazier.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew.
So Quarrel-picking, -piking vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1557. N. T. (Genev.), Acts xvii. 7, note. Like quarelpiking they vsed against Christe.
1591. R. Turnbull, Exp. St. James, Ep. Ded. A iv b. Reprochfull censure,… without quarrell-picking.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 25 Sept., 3/2. A … dining, quarrel-picking, and duelling club.
