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Bickered

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.]

  1. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.]

    Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.
    --Holland.

  2. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.

    Petty things about which men cark and bicker.
    --Barrow.

  3. 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.

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bickered

vb. (en-past of: bicker)

Usage examples of "bickered".

His own dreams bickered and brooded just below his skull, ready to attack him should he succumb to sleep.

They grinned and bickered excitedly, casting their eyes toward the city.

The nobility, as always when they bickered over the price of their meat, presented the butcher's bill to the common folk.

And even some damage to Overlook, up where Longshadow had bickered with his pals and then everybody had quarreled with Kina.

As they sat around their campfire, Dale Dugger told them a true story about the Kentucky caver Floyd Collins, who was trapped in the Mammoth cave system twenty years back and died of exposure while rescuers bickered about the best way to rescue him.

She had consciously renounced it a few years later when she discovered that most of her real friends bickered endlessly and accomplished very little.