bicker
11bicker — [bik′ər] vi. [ME bikeren, ? akin to Fris bikkern, hack, gnaw] 1. to have a petty quarrel; squabble 2. to move with quick, rippling noises [a bickering brook] 3. to flicker, twinkle, etc. n. 1. a petty quarrel 2. a rippli …
12bicker — v. (D; intr.) 1) to bicker constantly, incessantly 2) to bicker about, over; with * * * [ bɪkə] incessantly over with (D;intr.) to bicker constantly to bicker about …
13bicker — {{11}}bicker (n.) c.1300, skirmish, battle; from the same source as BICKER (Cf. 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… …
14bicker — UK [ˈbɪkə(r)] / US [ˈbɪkər] verb [intransitive] Word forms bicker : present tense I/you/we/they bicker he/she/it bickers present participle bickering past tense bickered past participle bickered to argue about things that are not important bicker …
15bicker — [[t]bɪ̱kə(r)[/t]] bickers, bickering, bickered V RECIP When people bicker, they argue or quarrel about unimportant things. [V over/about n (non recip)] I went into medicine to care for patients, not to waste time bickering over budgets... [pl n… …
16Bicker — This unusual and interesting name is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is an occupational name for a beekeeper. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century word beocere , in Middle English biker . The modern surname has three main forms,… …
17bicker — Synonyms and related words: altercate, argue, argufy, around the bush, bandy words, battle, beat, beat about, beg the question, bicker over, boggle, brawl, broil, caterwaul, cavil, choplogic, clack, clatter, clitter, contend, contend about,… …
18bicker — bick|er [ˈbıkə US ər] v [Date: 1200 1300; : Middle Dutch; Origin: bicken [i] to attack ] to argue, especially about something very unimportant ▪ I wish you two would stop bickering. bicker about/over ▪ They kept bickering over who should answer… …
19bicker — bick|er [ bıkər ] verb intransitive to argue about things that are not important: bicker (with someone) over/about something: children bickering with each other over whose turn is next ╾ bick|er|ing [ bıkəriŋ ] noun uncount: tired of the constant …
20Bicker, Lincolnshire — Bicker is a village in Lincolnshire, England. It is around nine miles west south west of Boston, on the A52.It is one of eighteen parishes which, together with Boston, form the Borough of Boston in the county of Lincolnshire, England. The local… …
