Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SQUABBLED
Verb
squabbled
simple past tense and past participle of squabble
Source: Wiktionary
SQUABBLE
Squab"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squabbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Squabbling.] Etym: [Cf. dial. Sw. skvabbel a dispute, skvappa to chide.]
1. To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.
2. To debate peevishly; to dispute. The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative. I. Watts.
Syn.
– To dispute; contend; scuffle; wrangle; quarrel; struggle.
Squab"ble, v. t. (Print.)
Definition: To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.
Squab"ble, n.
Definition: A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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