Crossword clues for bicker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bicker \Bick"er\, n.
A skirmish; an encounter. [Obs.]
A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.
Bicker \Bick"er\, n. [See Beaker.] A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
Bicker \Bick"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bickered; p. pr. & vb. n. Bickering.] [OE. bikeren, perh. fr. Celtic; cf. W. bicra to fight, bicker, bicre conflict, skirmish; perh. akin to E. beak.]
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To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.]
Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.
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To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
Petty things about which men cark and bicker.
--Barrow. -
To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.
They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade.
--Thomson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., bikere, "to skirmish, fight," perhaps from Middle Dutch bicken "to slash, stab, attack," + -er, Middle English frequentative suffix. Meaning "to quarrel" is from mid-15c. Related: Bickered; bickering.\n
c.1300, skirmish, battle; from the same source as bicker (v.). In modern use, often to describe the sound of a flight of an arrow or other repeated, loud, rapid sounds, in which sense it is perhaps at least partly echoic.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A skirmish; an encounter. 2 (context Scotland obsolete English) A fight with stones between two parties of boys. 3 A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention. vb. 1 To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner. 2 To move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, of a flame) 3 To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. Etymology 2
n. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Bicker may refer to
- Bicker, Lincolnshire
- Bicker, a practice in the eating clubs at Princeton University and Mount Olive College
- Bicker (family), a Dutch Golden Age family, headed by Andries Bicker
Usage examples of "bicker".
People would always fight, argue, bicker and disagree, whether influenced by abiding Interlopers or not.
The strangers have a great force on Toman Head, more than Tarabon and Arad Doman together may be able to hold, even if they can stop their own bickering long enough to work together.
At last after bickering and quarrelling and false starts away the farmer yielded for half again the worth of an ox in those parts.
Sometimes I can almost believe I hear the Marys laughing and bickering and chattering.
And if Reever and I stopped bickering long enough to take our kid and leave the ship, Hawk could certainly come along.
It disturbed Laura to see the faint bickering that occurred these days between Rhoda and Seth over trifles that normally both would have ignored.
Cecile said after an evening when the bickering between Rhoda and Seth had become almost hostile.
As always she was uncomfortable listening to the mild bickering between Seth and Rhoda, even while she understood the tensions under which they both lived these days.
They dispatched ship carpenters where needed, appointed chaplains, and faced the incessant day-to-day frustrations of bickering, jealousies, and corruption.
After a good deal of fuss and bickering, Congress had at last approved an Act Providing a Naval Armament.
Two of his mobile phones are bickering moronically, disputing ownership of his grid bandwidth.
She was generally at the centre of things, surrounded by a bickering and admiring crowd of seemingly lesser mortals, which sometimes included Jalila.
The car was parked in the patch of red dust by the front porch, and the six departing members of the group were standing on the porch bickering about what to take along.
Within minutes they were all bickering as if it were more than thirty years ago.
In this manner, each side will be encouraged to put aside petty bickering or have little time for the maintenance of its own temple.