Bicker

Quick meaning: Bicker is a verb meaning To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.

Meaning

To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.

More Meanings

1. To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
2. (of rain) To patter.
3. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
4. (countable) A skirmish; an encounter.
5. (countable, Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
6. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
7. The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.

Example Sentences

They bickered about dinner every evening.

petty things about which men cark and bicker

Bicker process varies by club, and there are often concerns of the rights of female students during bicker […]

I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley.

Word Forms

• bickers
• bickering
• bickered

Synonyms for bicker

Depending on context, synonyms include wrangle, niggle, fuss, squabble, spat, quibble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include squabble, tiff, brabble, pettifog, quibble, niggle.

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