Definition of bicker
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: petulant quarreling : altercation
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: a sound of or as if of bickering
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Examples of bicker in a Sentence
after a prolonged bicker, they finally managed to find a movie that both of them were interested in seeing
Recent Examples of bicker from the Web
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Jughead After Jughead calls all the Serpents back to the Whyte Wyrm and gets them to stop rioting and pursuing Reggie, Jughead and Sweet Pea (Jordan Connor) bicker over Jughead’s responsibility for the mess with Fangs and the Ghoulies.
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Freyre said Castro probably will take a more diminished role, emerging only if the new crop of leaders stray too far from the script or bicker too much among themselves.
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Tarek and Christina El Moussa of Flip or Flop, on the other hand, bicker constantly and seem completely unnatural on camera.
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The family bickers as only a Southern family can, mentioning every slight and insult that has occurred over the past 80 years.
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The three bicker for a while, then make the mistake of telling Arie their respective sides of the story.
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But while The Lifespan of a Fact promised to be a serious conversation from two individuals with differing publishing vantage points, the book runs aground as the two bicker over minutiae and appear needlessly belligerent.
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In the final 30 seconds of the video, 14 Taylors standing in front of a private plane bicker with each other using common lines of criticism the superstar has faced throughout her career.
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The city has paid Walker more than $60,000 to sit at home while council members do nothing but draw lines in the sand and bicker.
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Origin and Etymology of bicker
Middle English biker
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Synonyms
altercation, argument, battle royal, brawl, controversy, cross fire, disagreement, dispute, donnybrook, falling-out, fight, hassle, imbroglio, misunderstanding, quarrel, rhubarb, row, scrap, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle;
Related Words
clash, run-in, skirmish, tangle, tussle;
attack, contention, dissension (also dissention);
debate, difference, disputation;
fuss, objection, protest, protestation;
fisticuffs, fracas, fray, free-for-all, melee (also mêlée);
Definition of bicker
bickered;
bickering
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\ˈbi-k(ə-)riŋ\
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: to engage in a petulant or petty quarrel
- bickering over money
Examples of bicker in a Sentence
She is always bickering with her mother.
They bickered about how to decorate the room.
Recent Examples of bicker from the Web
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Egos clashed, members bickered online, and some broke off to form the rival Democratic Football Lads Alliance.
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The women of Desperate Housewives bickered with one another, while the female lawyers of The Good Wife feuded in order to protect their cheating husbands.
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The two men were bickering over a woman, police told Patch.
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Kid Fury and Todrick Hall bickering about white female pop stars using all the Black gay colloquialisms that have yet to be appropriated by said white women was gold.
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As the interview continued, George and Cindy continued to bicker.
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Sunday’s sail-past comes amid a sensitive spell in U.S.-China relations, already marred by bickering over trade imbalances and international efforts to pressure North Korea into giving up nuclear weapons.
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To him, the calm Momo—who sits quietly while others bicker over trivialities or rush through their work robotically—is the embodiment of a mature Buddhist practitioner.
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, while billionaires bicker over cobalt, the president is driving his country off a cliff.
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First Known Use of bicker
15th century
BICKER Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of bicker for English Language Learners
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: to argue in a way that is annoying about things that are not important
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Definition of bicker for Students
bickered;
bickering
: to quarrel in an irritating way especially over unimportant things
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