bicker UK /ˈbɪkə/US /ˈbɪkɚ/noun 5verb 4forms 3 noun5 •A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention. •The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.Bicker process varies by club, and there are often concerns of the rights of female students during bicker […] — 2005 •A skirmish; an encounter. •(Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.…the liquors were handed around in great fulness, the ale in large wooden bickers, and the brandy in capacious horns of oxen. — 1824 •(Scotland, no longer used) A fight with stones between two parties of boys. verb4 •To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.They bickered about dinner every evening. •To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. •To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley. — 1886 •To patter. formsbickered · bickering · bickers
