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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

Bickering n.

A skirmishing. "Frays and bickerings."

Altercation; wrangling.

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Etymology of 'Bickering'

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"Bickering" Quotes from Famous Books

... Urim, work divinely wrought, Ascended; at his right hand Victory Sat eagle-wing'd; beside him hung his bow And quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored; And from about him fierce effusion roll'd Of smoke, and bickering flame, and sparkles dire; Attended with ten thousand thousand saints, He onward came; far off their coming shone; And twenty thousand (I their number heard) Chariots of God, half on each hand, were seen: He on the wings of cherub rode sublime On the crystalline sky, in ...

— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge

... expected any such bickering as I have indicated, between the soldiers of the two sections; and, fortunately, there has been none between the politicians. Possibly I am the only one who thought of the liability of such a ...

— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant

... we are all together, whether we wish to be or no, and for six weeks or more on the island we shall see no faces but our own. Are we to be divided from the beginning by quarrels? Are maybe even the men of us to be set by the ears through the bickering of women?" ...

— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon

... shotgun over his shoulder. He shot into a tree-top full of bickering blackbirds and brought three down, torn, flopping, bleeding. He thrust them into his sack, which reddened through, and we went on ... still in silence. The silence began to make me tremble but I was glad, anyhow, that I had gone with him. I conjectured that he had brought me a-field to give me ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... of his enunciation assorted consistently with the general habit of the man. Lanyard recognized a nature no more pliable than his own. Idle to waste time bickering with ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

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