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bickerbick‧er /ˈbɪkə $ -ər/ verb [intransitive] bickerOrigin: 1200-1300 Middle Dutch bicken ‘to attack’ VERB TABLEbicker |
Present | I, you, we, they | bicker | | he, she, it | bickers | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | bickered | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have bickered | | he, she, it | has bickered | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had bickered | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will bicker | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have bickered |
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Present | I | am bickering | | he, she, it | is bickering | | you, we, they | are bickering | Past | I, he, she, it | was bickering | | you, we, they | were bickering | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been bickering | | he, she, it | has been bickering | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been bickering | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be bickering | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been bickering |
- The mayor and the town council spent most of Thursday bickering over how to balance next year's budget.
- Whenever we go shopping together we always start bickering.
- Another nine were voted out over Democratic objections and with partisan bickering.
- As they began bickering about how to interpret his behavior.
- But Davidson thinks the message from voters last fall indicates that lawmakers should act, not bicker.
- Nor did divisions and bickering between Protestants lend prestige to their faith.
- Since she got here, everyone's been bickering.
- The Democrats, now smugly confident, may start to bicker among themselves.
- What Grimma was thinking was: they're not bickering.
to argue about something very unimportant► squabble to argue noisily about something that is not really important -- use this especially about children or when you think someone is behaving like a child: · Oh, for goodness sake, stop squabbling, you two!squabble about/over: · The kids always squabble about who should do the dishes. ► bicker to continually argue about something unimportant in a way that annoys other people: · Whenever we go shopping together we always start bickering.bicker about/over: · The mayor and the town council spent most of Thursday bickering over how to balance next year's budget. ► quibble to argue in an annoying way about unimportant details, especially about whether something is exactly correct: · She said I owed her twenty dollars. I thought it was twenty-five but I wasn't going to quibble.quibble over: · Why quibble over whose turn it is to buy lunch? Split it, and forget about it. ► split hairs to say that there is a difference between two things and argue about this, when really the difference is too small to be important: · Batard is a little sweeter than Chevalier but perhaps that's splitting hairs; both these wines are excellent. to argue, especially about something very unimportant: I wish you two would stop bickering.bicker about/over They kept bickering over who should answer the phone.—bickering noun [uncountable] |