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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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... on two useless legs you surely are, And born beneath some wayward sauntering star To sit for ever swinging on a gate, And laugh at wiser people passing through.' So spake the bard De Lacy: for they two In frequent skirmishes of fierce debate Would bicker, tho' their mutual ...

— The Germ - Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art • Various

... to oor oxters in snaw, the morn, Wattie," chirrupped one damsel, in the bicker of rustic wit and ...

— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang

... Rom. The tyrant's ashes moulder on the plain. Rem. (You've said that once before. Say it again.) Rom. Remus, my blackguard brother, hold thy tongue. Rem. Romulus, may I be spared to see thee hung. Maidens. Alas! to see two brothers bicker thus is sad, Let's laugh and sport and turn to something glad. Mary Ann (blushing). I'll sing you a simple ballad if you like. (All shuddering). Good gracious! (Aside) Certainly, by all means. Mary Ann. How ...

— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed

... wrangle and snarl and bicker, like so many dogs over a bone, our countrywomen and their innocent children are to be scalped and burnt and massacred? That is Scripture law, is it? that is your vaunted religion. You will give way—you will yield ...

— French and English - A Story of the Struggle in America • Evelyn Everett-Green

... better, probably as fiery. Who has already taught thee thus at once Like him to bribe me with a single word? Indeed, if all has past as thou narratest, I scarcely can discover Nathan in it. But Nathan is my friend, and of my friends One must not bicker with the other. Bend - And be directed. Move with caution. Do not Loose on him the fanatics of thy sect. Conceal what all thy clergy would be claiming My hand to avenge upon him, with more show Of right than is my wish. Be not from spite To ...

— Nathan the Wise • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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