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bicker
1[ bik-er ]
verb (used without object)
- to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle:
The two were always bickering.
Synonyms: spat, disagreement, argument, spar, dispute, haggle, quarrel, argue, squabble, disagree
- Literary. to rush or make a rushing sound, as water:
We first heard and then saw the stream bickering down the valley.
The sun bickered through the trees.
noun
- an angry, petty dispute or quarrel; altercation.
bicker
2[ bik-er ]
noun
- any wooden dish or bowl, especially a wooden porridge bowl.
- Obsolete. a wooden drinking cup.
bicker
/ ˈbɪkə /
verb
- to argue over petty matters; squabble
- poetic.
- (esp of a stream) to run quickly
- to flicker; glitter
noun
- a petty squabble
Derived Forms
- ˈbickerer, noun
- ˈbickering, nounadjective
Other Words From
- bick·er·er noun
- un·bick·ered adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of bicker1
Word History and Origins
Origin of bicker1
Example Sentences
All we think old people do is bicker about how different you are.
Despite their sizeable difference in age (he 53, she 25), the two playfully bicker like, well, a couple in an Allen film.
They bicker and backstab and yell—and there is quite a bit of yelling.
And it must get us to root for survivors who often bicker or self-sabotage when we just want them to move forward.
The purpose of a campaign, after all, is to bicker about economic conditions and government actions.
And, for want of better measure, he seized lustily a bicker that lay near him, and dashed a quantity of the liquor into it.
They were cast in a quieter time and refuse to bicker on a paltry minute.
Kirsty and Jenny, two country lassies, were supping their "parritch" from the same bicker in the harvest-field one morning.
We grow old and wrinkled and sick; we bicker with those we love; it grows harder to remember, easier to forget.
There is a homely saying in Wiltshire that married people are made to bicker and breed.
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