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bicker

/ˈbɪkə

verb [no object]

1Argue about petty and trivial matters: couples who bicker over who gets what from the divorce...

They fight and bicker over nothing, over petty cultural differences.
Additionally, the two sides routinely bicker over the disputed islands, a supposedly oil-rich area.
‘People expect us to do what we can to work together, at least most of the time,’ he added, indicating a bid to stop bickering between rival political factions on the authority.

Synonyms

squabble, argue;

quarrel, wrangle, fight, fall out, have a disagreement, disagree, dispute, spar, bandy words, have words, be at each other's throats, lock horns

informal scrap, argufy, have a tiff, have a spat, spat

British informal row, have a row, have a barney

archaic altercate, chop logic

2 literary (Of water) flow or fall with a gentle repetitive noise; patter: against the glass the rain did beat and bicker...

The sound of rain bickering outside his window was driving him crazy.
The sound of water bickering down the winding way of a stream gave life and coolness to the warm silence.
A path led in the foot of it, the water bickered and sang in the midst.

2.1(Of a flame or light) flash, gleam, or flicker: the restless wheels whose flashing spokes bicker and burn...

How the flame bickers, and quivers, and flickers, darting its eager tongues about!
In one or two instances there has appeared, when the light was totally excluded, a faint lambent flame bickering over them.
And a wood-fire bickered on the iron-work fire-back, under whose oak over-mantel Sir Philip sat with us ten minutes, then took himself away into his own sequestered nook of the house.

Derivatives

bickerer

noun ...

This towering lack of interest is quite unusual in the region, because we love to have something to bicker about and what could give us a better cause for bickering than the professional bickerers themselves.
From the very beginning, the anchorman ripped into the famous bickerers and was unrelenting throughout.
If you wait for all the bickerers, backbiters, and foot draggers to come to accord, you'll never get anything done.

Origin

Middle English: of unknown origin.

单词	bicker
释义	bicker /ˈbɪkə / verb [no object] 1Argue about petty and trivial matters: couples who bicker over* who gets what from the divorce... They fight and bicker over nothing, over petty cultural differences. Additionally, the two sides routinely bicker over the disputed islands, a supposedly oil-rich area. ‘People expect us to do what we can to work together, at least most of the time,’ he added, indicating a bid to stop bickering between rival political factions on the authority. Synonyms squabble, argue; quarrel, wrangle, fight, fall out, have a disagreement, disagree, dispute, spar, bandy words, have words, be at each other's throats, lock horns informal* scrap, argufy, have a tiff, have a spat, spat British informal row, have a row, have a barney archaic altercate, chop logic 2 literary (Of water) flow or fall with a gentle repetitive noise; patter: against the glass the rain did beat and bicker... The sound of rain bickering outside his window was driving him crazy. The sound of water bickering down the winding way of a stream gave life and coolness to the warm silence. A path led in the foot of it, the water bickered and sang in the midst. 2.1(Of a flame or light) flash, gleam, or flicker: the restless wheels whose flashing spokes bicker and burn... How the flame bickers, and quivers, and flickers, darting its eager tongues about! In one or two instances there has appeared, when the light was totally excluded, a faint lambent flame bickering over them. And a wood-fire bickered on the iron-work fire-back, under whose oak over-mantel Sir Philip sat with us ten minutes, then took himself away into his own sequestered nook of the house. Derivatives bickerer noun ... This towering lack of interest is quite unusual in the region, because we love to have something to bicker about and what could give us a better cause for bickering than the professional bickerers themselves. From the very beginning, the anchorman ripped into the famous bickerers and was unrelenting throughout. If you wait for all the bickerers, backbiters, and foot draggers to come to accord, you'll never get anything done. Origin Middle English: of unknown origin. Rhymes clicker, dicker, flicker, kicker, liquor, nicker, picker, pricker, shicker, slicker, snicker, sticker, ticker, tricker, vicar, whicker, Wicca, wicker
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bicker

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bickerer

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