Bicker Definition
bĭkər
bickering, bickers
verb
bickering, bickers
To engage in a bad-tempered quarrel, often in a petty manner over something trivial; squabble.
American Heritage
To have a petty quarrel; squabble.
Webster's New World
To flicker or glitter.
American Heritage
To move or flow with a rippling or gurgling sound.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
noun
bickers
An angry quarrel; a squabble.
American Heritage
A skirmish or quarrel.
Webster's New World
A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
Wiktionary
Origin of Bicker
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Middle English bikeren ‘to attack’, from Middle Dutch bicken ‘to stab, attack’ (modern bikken ‘to hack’), from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną (compare Old English becca ‘pickax’, German picken ‘to peck, pick at’, Old Norse bikkja ‘to plunge into water’), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- ‘to smash, break’.
From Wiktionary
Middle English bikeren to attack
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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See beaker.
From Wiktionary
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