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/bˈɪkər/ Listen

verb

Bicker v. i. (past & past part. bickered; pres. part. bickering)

To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. (Obs.) "Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together."

To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. "Petty things about which men cark and bicker."

To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. "They (streamlets) bickered through the sunny shade."

noun

Bicker n. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. (Prov. Eng.)

Bicker n.

A skirmish; an encounter. (Obs.)

A fight with stones between two parties of boys. (Scot.)

A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.

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Etymology of 'Bicker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the perusal of Marshall's "Life of Washington," which I had laid by in the fall. Lieutenants Barnum and Bicker and Mr. ...

— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

... meant to sell them some day," Cousin Jasper answered, "for there were several that were of almost as much value as the house itself. But less than ever was I willing to bicker and haggle over what I had really loved, and since he would not sell them to me I gave the matter up. Even then, there was a little justice on his side, for the pictures had been purchased with money from the lands that he called ...

— The Windy Hill • Cornelia Meigs

... were you in a stone bicker last?" quoth Randal; and I hung my head, for it was not yet six months gone since the sailors and we students were stoning ...

— A Monk of Fife • Andrew Lang

... young, Mr. Majority Leader, the Congress and the Executive were capable of working together to produce a budget on which this nation could live. Let us negotiate soon and hard. But in the end, let us produce. The American people await action. They didn't send us here to bicker. They ask us to rise above the merely partisan. "In crucial things, unity"—and this, my ...

— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various

... a breast-plate. I would not that those days of battle returned; but I should love well to make the oaks of my old forest of Dalgarno ring once more with halloo, and horn, and hound, and to have the old stone- arched hall return the hearty shout of my vassals and tenants, as the bicker and the quaigh walked their rounds amongst them. I should like to see the broad Tay once more before I die—not even the Thames can match ...

— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott

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