bicker Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a quarrel about petty points
    squabble; fuss; pettifoggery; bickering; tiff; spat.
  2. verb argue over petty things
    niggle; squabble; pettifog; brabble; quibble.
    • Let's not quibble over pennies

WordNet

Bick"er noun
Etymology
See Beaker.
Definitions
  1. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. Prov. Eng.
Bick"er intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. bikeren, perh. fr. Celtic; cf. W. bicra to fight, bicker, bicre conflict, skirmish; perh. akin to E. beak.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bickered present participle & verbal noun Bickering
Definitions
  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.
Bick"er noun
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913