BICKER

bicker

Noun

  1. A skirmish; an encounter.
  2. A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
  3. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

Verb

  1. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
    They bickered about dinner every evening.
  2. To move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, of a flame)
  3. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.


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