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/bˈɪkərɪŋ/ 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

Bickering n.

A skirmishing. "Frays and bickerings."

Altercation; wrangling.

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Etymology of 'Bickering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bickering" Quotes from Famous Books

... wife were getting their Sunday school lessons with much bickering, when Will drove up the next day to the dilapidated gate and hitched his team to a leaning post under the oaks. Will saw the old man's head at the open window, but no one else, though he looked eagerly for Agnes as he walked ...

— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... however the quarrel seemed likely to end only in legal bickering. Balliol at first gave way, and it was not till 1293 that he alleged himself forced by the resentment both of his Baronage and his people to take up an attitude of resistance. While appearing therefore formally at Westminster ...

— History of the English People, Volume II (of 8) - The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 • John Richard Green

... while a "moral equivalent" happens to be pale like the stuff of which dreams are made. To the politician whose daily life consists in dodging the thousand and one conflicting prejudices of his constituents, in bickering with committees, intriguing and playing for the vote; to the business man harassed on four sides by the trust, the union, the law, and public opinion,—distrustful of any wide scheme because the stupidity of his shipping clerk is the most vivid item in his ...

— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

... these sympathetic moments, and where Wanhope was there would probably be Rulledge, passively willing to listen and agree, and Minver ready to interrupt and dispute. I myself liked to look in and linger for either the reasoning or the bickering, as it happened, and now seeing the three there together, I took a provisional seat behind the painter, who made no sign of knowing I was present. Rulledge was eating a caviar sandwich, which he had brought from the ...

— Quaint Courtships • Howells & Alden, Editors

... comrade! If thou'rt for a little bickering and disputation with that goodly club o' thine, come thy ways for methinks I ...

— The Geste of Duke Jocelyn • Jeffery Farnol

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