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Definitions for Bicker
ˈbɪk ərbick·er

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fussverb

    a quarrel about petty points

  2. quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabbleverb

    argue over petty things

    "Let's not quibble over pennies"

Wiktionary

  1. bickerverb

    To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.

    They bickered about dinner every evening.

  2. Etymology: bikeren ‘to attack’, from bicken ‘to stab, attack’ (modern bikken ‘to hack’), from bikjanan (compare Old English becca ‘pickax’, German picken ‘to peck, pick at’, Old Norse bikkja ‘to plunge into water’), from bʰeg- ‘to smash, break’.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To BICKERverb

    Etymology: bicre, Welsh, a contest.

    They fell to such a bickering, that he got a halting, and lost his picture. Philip Sidney.

    In thy face
    I see thy fury; if I longer stay,
    We shall begin our ancient bickerings. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    And from about him fierce effusion rowl’d
    Of smoke, and bickering flame, and sparkles dire. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. vi. l. 674.

    An icy gale, oft shifting o’er the pool,
    Breathes a blue film, and, in its mid career,
    Arrests the bickering stream. James Thomson, Winter, l. 730.

ChatGPT

  1. bicker

    Bicker refers to engaging in petty, unnecessary, or trivial arguments or disputes often repeatedly over a prolonged period. It involves trivial, minor, or repeated disagreements between individuals or groups.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bickernoun

    a small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub

  2. Bickerverb

    to skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight

  3. Bickerverb

    to contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle

  4. Bickerverb

    to move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame

  5. Bickernoun

    a skirmish; an encounter

  6. Bickernoun

    a fight with stones between two parties of boys

  7. Bickernoun

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

Wikidata

  1. Bicker

    Bicker is a village in the Borough of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 9 miles west-south-west from Boston, and on the A52 road.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Bicker

    bik′ėr, v.i. to contend in a petty way: to quiver: to move quickly and tremulously, as running water.—n. a fight, a quarrel: a clattering noise: a short run.—n. Bick′erment (Spens.), bickering, strife. [Acc. to Skeat, bicker = pick-er, or peck-er, to peck repeatedly with the beak.]

  2. Bicker

    bik′ėr, n. a bowl for holding liquor, esp. of wood: a vessel made of wooden staves for holding porridge. [Scot. form of Beaker.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. bicker

    A flat bowl or basin for containing liquors, formerly made of wood, but in later times of other substances. Thus Butler: "And into pikes, and musqueteers, Stamp beakers, cups, and porringers."

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. bicker

    A word formerly used in the sense of to skirmish; to fight off and on; to make repeated attacks.

Editors Contribution

  1. bicker

    Argue about petty or non-important issues.

    Don't bicker about the same issue again, instead try to find a practical solution.


    Submitted by anonymous on December 27, 2018  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BICKER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bicker is ranked #54990 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bicker surname appeared 374 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bicker.

    95.9% or 359 total occurrences were White.
    2.1% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Bicker in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Bicker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Bicker in a Sentence

  1. President Bush:

    To my friends, and, yes, I do mean friends -- in the loyal opposition and, yes, I mean loyal -- I put out my hand... 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 friends, is crucial.

  2. Rachel Blanchard:

    The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

  3. Carrie Ingoglia:

    This isn't to say we don't bicker, because we do, but we know each other well enough to know a bickering moment is not a reflection of our commitment.

  4. Toni Snow:

    You’re not even gon na bicker a little bit. . . Jew us down ? you’re not even gon na blink an eye ?

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  • карам се, дърля сеBulgarian
  • mundhugges, skændesDanish
  • zankenGerman
  • kiistellä, nahistella, kinastellaFinnish
  • bisticciare, bisticcio, lite, litigareItalian
  • tarahae, komekomeMāori
  • harrewarrenDutch
  • переругиваться, препиратьсяRussian
  • kivas, munhuggas, gnabbas, käbblaSwedish

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