Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bicker"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bicker \Bick"er\, n. [See {Beaker}.]
A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
[Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bicker \Bick"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bickered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Bickering}.] [OE. bikeren, perh. fr. Celtic; cf. W. bicra
to fight, bicker, bicre conflict, skirmish; perh. akin to E.
beak.]
1. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.]
Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.
--Holland.
2. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
Petty things about which men cark and bicker.
--Barrow.
3. To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise;
to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.
They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade.
--Thomson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bicker \Bick"er\, n.
1. A skirmish; an encounter. [Obs.]
2. A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.
3. A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bicker
n : petty quarrel [syn: {bickering}, {spat}, {tiff}, {squabble},
{fuss}]
v : argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
[syn: {quibble}, {niggle}, {pettifog}, {squabble}, {brabble}]
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