high words
noun
Roget 900: resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation; exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation. pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning, heart-swelling; rankling. ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper; irascibility etc. 901; ill blood etc. (hate) 898; revenge etc. 919. excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement [Fr.], angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums. burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation; violence etc. 173; fire and fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words. scowl etc. 895; sulks etc. 901.1. [Cause of umbrage] affront, provocation, offense; indignity etc. (insult) 929; grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli [Lat.]; ill turn, outrage. Furies, Eumenides. buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles. ... show more
Roget 713: disagreement etc. 24; discord, disaccord†, dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling etc. v.; screw loose. variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie [Fr.]; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism etc. (dissent) 489; feud, faction. quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie†, squabble, altercation, barney [Slang], demel_e, snarl, spat, towrow†, words, high words; wrangling etc. v.; jangle, brabble†, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars. polemics; litigation; strife etc. (contention) 720; warfare etc. 722; outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war. broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation†; embroilment, embranglement†, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work [Fr.], scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance etc. (disorder) 59; commotion etc. (agitation) 315; bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair. subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point; bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli [Lat.]; question at issue etc. (subject of inquiry) 461; vexed question, vexata quaestio [Lat.], brand of discord. troublous times†; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness etc. adj.; enmity etc. 889; hate etc. 898; Kilkenny cats; disputant etc. 710; strange bedfellows. ... show more
Roget 720: contention, strife; contest, contestation†; struggle; belligerency; opposition etc. 708. controversy, polemics; debate etc. (discussion) 476; war of words, logomachy†, litigation; paper war; high words etc. (quarrel) 713; sparring etc. v.. competition, rivalry; corrivalry†, corrivalship†, agonism†, concours†, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy†, gymkhana†; boat race, torpids†. wrestling, greco-roman wrestling; pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense; spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting; quarterstaff, single stick; gladiatorship†, gymnastics; jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti†, sumo; athletics, athletic sports; games of skill etc. 840. shindy†; fracas etc. (discord) 713; clash of arms; tussle, scuffle, broil, fray; affray, affrayment†; velitation†; colluctation†, luctation†; brabble†, brigue†, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash†, bushfighting†. free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight. conflict, skirmish; rencounter†, encounter; rencontre†, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting [Mediev.]; tournay†, list; pitched battle. death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle, Armageddon†. hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war. naval engagement, naumachia†, sea fight. duel, duello [It]; single combat, monomachy†, satisfaction, passage d'armes [Fr.], passage of arms, affair of honor; triangular duel; hostile meeting, digladiation†; deeds of arms, feats of arms; appeal to arms etc. (warfare) 722. pugnacity; combativeness etc. adj.; bone of contention etc. 713. ... show more
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