Meaning

2 senses

  1. One who excites contentions and quarrels; an instigator.

  2. A plant, bush jasmine (Chrysojasminum fruticans, syn. Jasminum fruticans).

Origin

From make + bate (“strife, contention, quarrel”).

From make + bate (“strife, contention, quarrel”).

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Forms

plural: makebates
Singularmakebate
Pluralmakebates

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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