bickern.¹

Brit.

/ˈbɪkə/, U.S.

/ˈbɪkər/

Forms: Also Middle English biquere, 1500s biquour.

Etymology: Scots form of beaker n.

‘A bowl or dish for containing liquor, properly one made of wood.’ Jamieson. Formerly, a drinking cup of any material; in modern Scottish use applied also to vessels made of wooden staves for holding porridge, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun]

chalicec825

napeOE

copc950

fullOE

cupc1000

canOE

shalec1075

scalec1230

maselin?a1300

mazer1311

richardine1352

dish1381

fiole1382

pece1383

phialc1384

gobletc1400

bowl-cup1420

chalice-cup1420

crusec1420

mazer-cup1434

goddard1439

stoup1452

bicker1459

cowl1476

tankard1485

stop1489

hanapa1513

skull1513

Maudlin cup1544

Magdalene cup?a1549

mazer bowl1562

skew1567

shell1577

godet1580

mazard1584

bousing-can1590

cushion1594

glove1609

rumkin1636

Maudlin pot1638

Pimlico1654

mazer dish1656

mug1664

tumbler1664

souce1688

streaker1694

ox-eye1703

false-cup1708

tankard-cup1745

poculum1846

phiale1867

tumbler-cup1900

stem-cup1915

sippy cup1986

the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > porridge bowl

pottinger1415

poddinger1463

porringer1467

bicker1817

ecuelle1856

1459 Test. of Philippa Russel (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/4) f. 113 Meum biquere argenti.

?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 90 Bot and I hecht to teme a bicker.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 162 The cheering bicker gars them glibly gash.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xi. 239 It will be a heavy deficit—a staff out o' my bicker, I trow.

1884 U.P. Mag. July 337 Coopers found employment in making or mending ‘bickers’ for brose or porridge.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as bickerful, bickermaker.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of domestic utensils > [noun] > maker of dishes, bowls, or cups

disher1304

cup-maker14..

boller1415

trencher-maker1588

bickermaker1813

1813 W. Beattie Tales 37 (Jam.) A brown bickerfu' to quaff.

1821 W. Scott Pirate I. xi. 265 A bickerfu' of meal.

1835 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders I. 116/2 He followed the profession..of a cooper or bicker-maker.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bickern.²

Brit.

/ˈbɪkə/, U.S.

/ˈbɪkər/

Forms: Middle English biker, Middle English bekir, bikre, bykkyr, Middle English–1500s byker, Middle English bekur, bikir, bikyr, bykere, bykker, bikkar, 1500s bikker, bikar, 1500s– bicker.

Etymology: Middle English biker , like the associated verb bikeren , of uncertain origin: nor can it be said whether the noun is derived from the verb or vice versâ . So far as evidence goes, the noun appears earlier, and might, as in battle , quarrel , skirmish , be the source. On the other hand, the verb has the form of a frequentative, as in sputter , totter , flutter , etc., which is in favour of its priority. Mätzner and Skeat would see in it the frequentative of the rare and somewhat doubtful bike ‘? to thrust, strike with a pointed weapon,’ noted under beak v. 3 The obsolete Welsh bicra is not native.

1. Skirmishing; a skirmish, encounter, fight; exchange of blows.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > skirmish

bicker1297

skirmishc1374

pointc1440

scourage1470

escarmouche1475

scrimmage1488

scrimmish1523

eskirmish1581

bickerment1586

velitation1616

pickeer1659

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight

bicker1297

fightc1300

tirpeilc1330

ragea1393

stradec1400

intermell1489

cockfighta1513

skirm1534

bustle1579

pell-mellc1586

brabble1587

jostle1607

scufflea1616

counterbuff1632

mêléea1648

roil1690

tussle1749

scrimmage1780

turn-up1810

scrape1812

pounding match1815

mellay1819

struggle1840

mix-up1841

scrap1846

rough-up1891

turn-to1893

push and shove1895

bagarre1897

stoush1908

dogfight1910

bundle1936

sort-out1937

yike1940

bassa-bassa1956

punch-up1958

thump-up1967

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 538 Bituene the castel of Gloucetre & Brumefeld al so Ther was ofte biker gret, & muche harm ido.

1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 35/2 Bikyr of fytynge [1499 bykere or feightinge], pugna.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 198/1 Bicker fightyng, escarmovche.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xx. 8363 Mony bold in the bekur were on bent leuit!

2. esp. An encounter with missiles; anciently an attack with arrows; in later Scottish, a street or school fight with stones and the like.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > battle or a battle > battle with specific weapons

bicker1488

martelaisea1500

firefight1613

artillery duel1861

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight > street or gang-fight

bicker1861

scuttle1864

gang fight1889

rammy1935

rumble1946

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 547 Twenty he had that nobill archaris war..On Wallace sett a bykkyr bauld and keyn.

1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 188 A wonder lusty bikkir me assayit.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 322 With tha stanis thir stalwart carlis strang Ane bikker maid.

1810 A. Boswell Edinburgh 30 From hand and sling now fly the whizzing stones,..The Bicker rages.

1861 J. Hannay Ess. fr. Q. Rev. 371 He went to the High School, and joined in the street fights called bickers.

3. Quarrel, contention; angry altercation.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel

flitingc1200

chidec1325

bicker1330

janglingc1330

chiding1340

wrangling1377

brawling1393

altercationc1405

words1410

brabblementa1563

wording1564

brabblery1567

bickering1573

jarring1574

bickerment1586

frapling1600

brangling1611

jangle1641

campling1660

frabble1685

collieshangie1737

flickering1776

wranglea1797

brabbling1858

bassa-bassa1956

1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 79 Gospatrik þat suffred biker, he reft boþe lond & liþe.

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2661 If thou sey nay we two shul have a bekyr [v.r. byker, biker, bekir, bikre, bykkyr].

c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 46 Þe bolder in bikir y bidde him bataile.

1883 Academy 15 Sept. 175/2 The rise and progress of the colony, its bickers with autocratic Governors and Chief Justices.

a. Noise as of contention, rattle of light guns, sound of a rapid stream descending over a stony channel, etc. Cf. bicker v. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun]

rickling1611

bicker1870

chuttering1938

chutter1951

1870 Daily News 7 Dec. No bicker of mere field artillery.

1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 47 Leap the white-maned fountains With lusty bicker to the vale below.

b. Scottish. A short rapid run.

ΚΠ

1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook v, in Poems (new ed.) 57 Leeward whyles, against my will, I took a bicker.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

bickerv.

Brit.

/ˈbɪkə/, U.S.

/ˈbɪkər/

Forms: Middle English bi-, byker(e, Middle English bikkir, bykkir, bykkyr, Middle English–1500s beker, bekir, Middle English bekyre, bikre, bickre, byccer, byker, bykre, bykir, bykker, bykkyr, byger, 1500s becker, bikker, bikkar, Middle English– bicker.

Etymology: See bicker n.²

a. intransitive. To skirmish, exchange blows; to fight.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > skirmish

bicker1330

skirmishc1420

scrimmish1523

scrimmage?1536

escarmouche1560

velitand1641

1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 256 Þan is tyme to bikere with þe kyng of France.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxiii. 78 Ther to abyde and bykere · aȝeyns beliales children.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 36 Bekeryn or fyghtyn, pugno, dimico.

1630 J. Taylor Wks. i. 100/1 I have bickered with the French at Brest and Deepe.

1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iii. 3 After they had bickered together a little while..and neither of them hurt, they dranke a carowse, and so parted friends.

1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. xi. 138 Slaughtered bickering for some petty town.

†b. Said esp. of archers and slingers, before battle was joined. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > skirmish > as archers and slingers

bicker1488

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 556 Ynglis archaris..Amang the Scottis bykkerit with all thar mycht.

1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 190 Thay..bikkerit vnabaisitly, The schour of arowis rappit on as rayn.

c1534 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 67 Bee fore hand strokes thei firste bickered with dartes and slinges.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xvii. 7400 Paris..With his bowmen full bold bykrit with the grekes.

c. figurative.

ΚΠ

1593 Bacchus Bountie in Harl. Misc. (1809) II. 264 Bickering with the broth of bountifull Bacchus.

a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. i. 46 They [passions] have not such ability as to bicker with absence.

†2. transitive. To attack with repeated strokes; esp. to assail with missiles. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)]

throwc1300

bicker1352

pelt1554

to let at1598

fling1635

1352 L. Minot Poems 51 A bore es boun ȝow to biker.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 152 Thair archaris..thai send To bykkir [1489 Adv. bykkyr] thame.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10685 Þan he braid out a brand, bikrid hym hard.

1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 267 The buschment haill about him brak and bikkerit him w^t bowis.

3. intransitive. To dispute, quarrel, wrangle.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in noisy or angry manner

flitec900

chidec1000

strivec1290

scold1377

wrangle1377

jangle1382

brawlc1440

bickera1450

to have words1490

altercate1530

jar1550

brangle1553

brabble1568

yed1570

fraple?a1598

barrat1600

warble1600

camp1606

to word it1612

caterwaul1621

cample1628

pickeer1651

spar1698

fratch1714

rafflea1796

row1797

barney1850

dudgeon1859

frabble1885

scrap1895

a1450 Chester Pl. (1847) II. 51 All againste us boote he not to becker.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre v. v. 84 in Wks. II You'ld haue an ill match on't, if you bicker with him here.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 59 Though their Merchants bicker in the East Indies.

1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting 157 To keep on bickering on this irksome subject, till you have put her in a passion.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 63 Tho' men may bicker with the things they love.

a. transferred. Applied to the making of any rapidly repeated noisy action, suggesting the showering of blows, as the brawling of a rapid stream over a stony channel, the pattering of rain, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)]

bicker1748

volley1810

chutter1948

1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence iii. 26 Glittering streamlets play'd..as they bicker'd thro' the sunny glade.

1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves in Friend 21 Sept. 92 Against the Glass The rain did beat and bicker.

1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix. 259 At the crook of the glen, Where bickers the burnie.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 102 And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

1874 J. G. Holland Mistress of Manse v. 33 The swallow bickered 'neath the eaves.

b. Scottish. To make a short quick run; describing the rapid vigorous action of the feet. Cf. pelt n.² 3b, skelp v.¹ 3.

ΚΠ

1792 R. Burns Let. 10 Sept. (1985) II. 145 The dreary glen through which the herd-callan maun bicker.

1879 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) (at cited word) I met him coming down the gait as fast as he could bicker.

5. poetic. Applied to the quick movement of flame and light: To flash, gleam, quiver, glisten. Cf. flicker v. 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (intransitive)] > flash

lash13..

gliffa1400

flashc1540

wink1605

flush1646

bicker1667

outflasha1856

strobe1977

1667 [implied in: J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 766 Smoak and bickering flame, and sparkles dire.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ix. 118 The restless wheels..Whose flashing spokes..Bicker and burn to gain their destined goal.

1827 J. Keble Christian Year II. xcix. 186 Those fires That bicker round in wavy spires.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 69 She saw Dust, and the points of lances bicker in it.

1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 150 And bicker like a flame?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹1459

n.²1297

v.1330

单词	bicker
释义	bickern.¹ Brit. /ˈbɪkə/, U.S. /ˈbɪkər/ Forms: Also Middle English biquere, 1500s biquour. Etymology: Scots form of beaker n. ‘A bowl or dish for containing liquor, properly one made of wood.’ Jamieson. Formerly, a drinking cup of any material; in modern Scottish use applied also to vessels made of wooden staves for holding porridge, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] chalicec825 napeOE copc950 fullOE cupc1000 canOE shalec1075 scalec1230 maselin?a1300 mazer1311 richardine1352 dish1381 fiole1382 pece1383 phialc1384 gobletc1400 bowl-cup1420 chalice-cup1420 crusec1420 mazer-cup1434 goddard1439 stoup1452 bicker1459 cowl1476 tankard1485 stop1489 hanapa1513 skull1513 Maudlin cup1544 Magdalene cup?a1549 mazer bowl1562 skew1567 shell1577 godet1580 mazard1584 bousing-can1590 cushion1594 glove1609 rumkin1636 Maudlin pot1638 Pimlico1654 mazer dish1656 mug1664 tumbler1664 souce1688 streaker1694 ox-eye1703 false-cup1708 tankard-cup1745 poculum1846 phiale1867 tumbler-cup1900 stem-cup1915 sippy cup1986 the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > porridge bowl pottinger1415 poddinger1463 porringer1467 bicker1817 ecuelle1856 1459 Test. of Philippa Russel (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/4) f. 113 Meum biquere argenti. ?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 90 Bot and I hecht to teme a bicker. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 162 The cheering bicker gars them glibly gash. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xi. 239 It will be a heavy deficit—a staff out o' my bicker, I trow. 1884 U.P. Mag. July 337 Coopers found employment in making or mending ‘bickers’ for brose or porridge. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as bickerful, bickermaker. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of domestic utensils > [noun] > maker of dishes, bowls, or cups disher1304 cup-maker14.. boller1415 trencher-maker1588 bickermaker1813 1813 W. Beattie Tales 37 (Jam.) A brown bickerfu' to quaff. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. xi. 265 A bickerfu' of meal. 1835 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders I. 116/2 He followed the profession..of a cooper or bicker-maker. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bickern.² Brit. /ˈbɪkə/, U.S. /ˈbɪkər/ Forms: Middle English biker, Middle English bekir, bikre, bykkyr, Middle English–1500s byker, Middle English bekur, bikir, bikyr, bykere, bykker, bikkar, 1500s bikker, bikar, 1500s– bicker. Etymology: Middle English biker , like the associated verb bikeren , of uncertain origin: nor can it be said whether the noun is derived from the verb or vice versâ . So far as evidence goes, the noun appears earlier, and might, as in battle , quarrel , skirmish , be the source. On the other hand, the verb has the form of a frequentative, as in sputter , totter , flutter , etc., which is in favour of its priority. Mätzner and Skeat would see in it the frequentative of the rare and somewhat doubtful bike ‘? to thrust, strike with a pointed weapon,’ noted under beak v. 3 The obsolete Welsh bicra is not native. 1. Skirmishing; a skirmish, encounter, fight; exchange of blows. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > skirmish bicker1297 skirmishc1374 pointc1440 scourage1470 escarmouche1475 scrimmage1488 scrimmish1523 eskirmish1581 bickerment1586 velitation1616 pickeer1659 society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight bicker1297 fightc1300 tirpeilc1330 ragea1393 stradec1400 intermell1489 cockfighta1513 skirm1534 bustle1579 pell-mellc1586 brabble1587 jostle1607 scufflea1616 counterbuff1632 mêléea1648 roil1690 tussle1749 scrimmage1780 turn-up1810 scrape1812 pounding match1815 mellay1819 struggle1840 mix-up1841 scrap1846 rough-up1891 turn-to1893 push and shove1895 bagarre1897 stoush1908 dogfight1910 bundle1936 sort-out1937 yike1940 bassa-bassa1956 punch-up1958 thump-up1967 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 538 Bituene the castel of Gloucetre & Brumefeld al so Ther was ofte biker gret, & muche harm ido. 1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 35/2 Bikyr of fytynge [1499 bykere or feightinge], pugna. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 198/1 Bicker fightyng, escarmovche. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xx. 8363 Mony bold in the bekur were on bent leuit! 2. esp. An encounter with missiles; anciently an attack with arrows; in later Scottish, a street or school fight with stones and the like. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > battle or a battle > battle with specific weapons bicker1488 martelaisea1500 firefight1613 artillery duel1861 society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight > street or gang-fight bicker1861 scuttle1864 gang fight1889 rammy1935 rumble1946 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 547 Twenty he had that nobill archaris war..On Wallace sett a bykkyr bauld and keyn. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 188 A wonder lusty bikkir me assayit. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 322 With tha stanis thir stalwart carlis strang Ane bikker maid. 1810 A. Boswell Edinburgh 30 From hand and sling now fly the whizzing stones,..The Bicker rages. 1861 J. Hannay Ess. fr. Q. Rev. 371 He went to the High School, and joined in the street fights called bickers. 3. Quarrel, contention; angry altercation. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel flitingc1200 chidec1325 bicker1330 janglingc1330 chiding1340 wrangling1377 brawling1393 altercationc1405 words1410 brabblementa1563 wording1564 brabblery1567 bickering1573 jarring1574 bickerment1586 frapling1600 brangling1611 jangle1641 campling1660 frabble1685 collieshangie1737 flickering1776 wranglea1797 brabbling1858 bassa-bassa1956 1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 79 Gospatrik þat suffred biker, he reft boþe lond & liþe. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2661 If thou sey nay we two shul have a bekyr [v.r. byker, biker, bekir, bikre, bykkyr]. c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 46 Þe bolder in bikir y bidde him bataile. 1883 Academy 15 Sept. 175/2 The rise and progress of the colony, its bickers with autocratic Governors and Chief Justices. 4. a. Noise as of contention, rattle of light guns, sound of a rapid stream descending over a stony channel, etc. Cf. bicker v. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] rickling1611 bicker1870 chuttering1938 chutter1951 1870 Daily News 7 Dec. No bicker of mere field artillery. 1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 47 Leap the white-maned fountains With lusty bicker to the vale below. b. Scottish. A short rapid run. ΚΠ 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook v, in Poems (new ed.) 57 Leeward whyles, against my will, I took a bicker. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). bickerv. Brit. /ˈbɪkə/, U.S. /ˈbɪkər/ Forms: Middle English bi-, byker(e, Middle English bikkir, bykkir, bykkyr, Middle English–1500s beker, bekir, Middle English bekyre, bikre, bickre, byccer, byker, bykre, bykir, bykker, bykkyr, byger, 1500s becker, bikker, bikkar, Middle English– bicker. Etymology: See bicker n.² 1. a. intransitive. To skirmish, exchange blows; to fight. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > skirmish bicker1330 skirmishc1420 scrimmish1523 scrimmage?1536 escarmouche1560 velitand1641 1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 256 Þan is tyme to bikere with þe kyng of France. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxiii. 78 Ther to abyde and bykere · aȝeyns beliales children. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 36 Bekeryn or fyghtyn, pugno, dimico. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. i. 100/1 I have bickered with the French at Brest and Deepe. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iii. 3 After they had bickered together a little while..and neither of them hurt, they dranke a carowse, and so parted friends. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. xi. 138 Slaughtered bickering for some petty town. †b. Said esp. of archers and slingers, before battle was joined. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > skirmish > as archers and slingers bicker1488 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 556 Ynglis archaris..Amang the Scottis bykkerit with all thar mycht. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 190 Thay..bikkerit vnabaisitly, The schour of arowis rappit on as rayn. c1534 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 67 Bee fore hand strokes thei firste bickered with dartes and slinges. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xvii. 7400 Paris..With his bowmen full bold bykrit with the grekes. c. figurative. ΚΠ 1593 Bacchus Bountie in Harl. Misc. (1809) II. 264 Bickering with the broth of bountifull Bacchus. a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. i. 46 They [passions] have not such ability as to bicker with absence. †2. transitive. To attack with repeated strokes; esp. to assail with missiles. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] throwc1300 bicker1352 pelt1554 to let at1598 fling1635 1352 L. Minot Poems 51 A bore es boun ȝow to biker. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 152 Thair archaris..thai send To bykkir [1489 Adv. bykkyr] thame. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10685 Þan he braid out a brand, bikrid hym hard. 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 267 The buschment haill about him brak and bikkerit him w^t bowis. 3. intransitive. To dispute, quarrel, wrangle. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in noisy or angry manner flitec900 chidec1000 strivec1290 scold1377 wrangle1377 jangle1382 brawlc1440 bickera1450 to have words1490 altercate1530 jar1550 brangle1553 brabble1568 yed1570 fraple?a1598 barrat1600 warble1600 camp1606 to word it1612 caterwaul1621 cample1628 pickeer1651 spar1698 fratch1714 rafflea1796 row1797 barney1850 dudgeon1859 frabble1885 scrap1895 a1450 Chester Pl. (1847) II. 51 All againste us boote he not to becker. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre v. v. 84 in Wks. II You'ld haue an ill match on't, if you bicker with him here. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 59 Though their Merchants bicker in the East Indies. 1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting 157 To keep on bickering on this irksome subject, till you have put her in a passion. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 63 Tho' men may bicker with the things they love. 4. a. transferred. Applied to the making of any rapidly repeated noisy action, suggesting the showering of blows, as the brawling of a rapid stream over a stony channel, the pattering of rain, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] bicker1748 volley1810 chutter1948 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence iii. 26 Glittering streamlets play'd..as they bicker'd thro' the sunny glade. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves in Friend 21 Sept. 92 Against the Glass The rain did beat and bicker. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix. 259 At the crook of the glen, Where bickers the burnie. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 102 And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. 1874 J. G. Holland Mistress of Manse v. 33 The swallow bickered 'neath the eaves. b. Scottish. To make a short quick run; describing the rapid vigorous action of the feet. Cf. pelt n.² 3b, skelp v.¹ 3. ΚΠ 1792 R. Burns Let. 10 Sept. (1985) II. 145 The dreary glen through which the herd-callan maun bicker. 1879 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) (at cited word) I met him coming down the gait as fast as he could bicker. 5. poetic. Applied to the quick movement of flame and light: To flash, gleam, quiver, glisten. Cf. flicker v. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (intransitive)] > flash lash13.. gliffa1400 flashc1540 wink1605 flush1646 bicker1667 outflasha1856 strobe1977 1667 [implied in: J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 766 Smoak and bickering flame, and sparkles dire. View more context for this quotation]. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ix. 118 The restless wheels..Whose flashing spokes..Bicker and burn to gain their destined goal. 1827 J. Keble Christian Year II. xcix. 186 Those fires That bicker round in wavy spires. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 69 She saw Dust, and the points of lances bicker in it. 1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 150 And bicker like a flame? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1459n.²1297v.1330
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