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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

βατραχομυομαχία

;

βάτραχοσ

frog +

μῦσ

mouse +

μάχη

battle.]

The battle between the frogs and mice; – a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

Noun.

[Gr.a frog, a mouse, and a battle.]

The battle between the frogs and mice; a burlesque poem ascribed to Homer.

batrachomyomachy ‎(plural batrachomyomachies)

A petty quarrel.
- 1917, “Nature's Police Force”, in The Living Age, volume 294, Boston: The Living Age Company, page 698:
  Among mammals, stoats and weasels have been mentioned as likely allies, in this batrachomyomachy where the frogs are men, but the alliance, certainly in the case of stoats, would prove dangerous.