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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

Bicker n. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. (Prov. Eng.)

Bicker n.

A skirmish; an encounter. (Obs.)

A fight with stones between two parties of boys. (Scot.)

A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.

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"Bicker" Quotes from Famous Books

... do it. That's the wust.) Rom. The tyrant's ashes moulder on the plain. Rem. (You've said that once before. Say it again.) Rom. Remus, my blackguard brother, hold thy tongue. Rem. Romulus, may I be spared to see thee hung. Maidens. Alas! to see two brothers bicker thus is sad, Let's laugh and sport and turn to something glad. Mary Ann (blushing). I'll sing you a simple ballad if you like. (All shuddering). Good gracious! (Aside) Certainly, by all means. Mary Ann. How ...

— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed

... of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river; For men may come, and men may go, But I ...

— De La Salle Fifth Reader • Brothers of the Christian Schools

... that gars the gear Is gone where glint the pawky een. And aye the stound is birkin lear Where sconnered yowies wheeped yestreen, The creeshie rax wi' skelpin' kaes Nae mair the howdie bicker whangs, Nor weanies in their wee bit claes Glour light as lammies wi' ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... a sticker for trifles, and bicker And quarrel for nothing at all; You'll grow to be kinder, more thoughtful and blinder To faults which are petty and small. You won't take the trouble your two fists to double When someone your pride may offend; When with rage now you bristle you'll smile ...

— When Day is Done • Edgar A. Guest

... against the glass The rain did beat and bicker; The church-tower swinging over head, You ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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