Also 5 querelour, 6–7 quareller, (7 -or, -our). [f. QUARREL v. + -ER1.] One who quarrels, in senses of the vb.
c. 1450. Aristotle’s ABC, in Q. Eliz. Acad., etc. 66. Quenche fals querelour; þe quene of heven þe will quite.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546), F vij b. No quarellers, but sufferers.
1566. T. Stapleton, Ret. Untr. Jewel, ii. 46. Such a wrangler and Childish quareller as you be.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 58. No riuer hath lesse liberty … yet he is no quarreller, nor much harm doeth he.
a. 1642. Sir W. Monson, Wars with Spain (1682), 3. It were better to keep company with a Coward than a Quarreller.
176[?]. Wesley, Husb. & Wives, iii. 6, Wks. 1811, IX. 66. Away then with … this quarreller, suspicion.
1824. Scott, St. Ronan’s, viii. Quarrellers do not usually live long.
1892. E. Reeves, Homeward Bound, 103. The big albatross … scattering the quarrellers, seizes the tempting morsel for himself.
† b. With pun on QUARREL sb.1 3. Obs.
1630. Conceits, Clinches, etc. (Halliw. 1860), 5. One said it was unfit a glasier should be a constable, because he was a common quareller.
1673. R. Head, Canting Acad., 163. Glasiers … are constant Quarrellers.
