What does bicker mean?
Definitions for bicker
ˈbɪk ərbick·er
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Princeton's WordNet
bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fussverb
a quarrel about petty points
quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabbleverb
argue over petty things
"Let's not quibble over pennies"
Wiktionary
bickerverb
To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
They bickered about dinner every evening.
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
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
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
Bickernoun
a small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub
Bickerverb
to skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight
Bickerverb
to contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle
Bickerverb
to move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame
Bickernoun
a skirmish; an encounter
Bickernoun
a fight with stones between two parties of boys
Bickernoun
a wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention
Wikidata
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
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.]
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
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
bicker
A word formerly used in the sense of to skirmish; to fight off and on; to make repeated attacks.
Editors Contribution
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bicker in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bicker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of bicker in a Sentence
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.
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.
You’re not even gon na bicker a little bit. . . Jew us down ? you’re not even gon na blink an eye ?
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.
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