bicker

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
2. To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
3. To patter.
4. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

Noun

1. (countable) A skirmish; an encounter.
2. (Scotland, countable, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
3. (countable, uncountable) A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
4. (countable, uncountable) The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.

Noun

A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.

Concepts

chamailler

criailler

disputer

guêtre

querelle

se chamailler

se quereller

chamaillerie

picoter

Synonymes

squabble

quarrel

wrangle

argue

dispute

spat

quibble

niggle

jangle

bickering

brabble

brawl

fight

altercate

pettifog

haggle

disagree

contend

row

scrap

tiff

pettifoggery

fuss

resist

in a rage

scold

nit-pick

skirmish

spar

sparring

complain

badger

🦡

strive

struggle

fracas

polemicize

jar

🫙

nag

equivocate

have a row

wisecrack

attack

👊

Traductions

bisticciare

zanken

streiten

battibeccare

λογομαχώ

çekişmek

keifen

litigare

sich zanken

τρεμουλιάζω

φιλονικία

διαπληκτισμός

αψιμαχώ

διαπληκτίζομαι

bisticcio

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈbɪkɚ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: bikeren

Appartenant à ancien anglais: becca

Appartenant à néerlandais: bikken

Appartenant à allemand: picken

Appartenant à vieux norrois: bikkja

In summary

From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną (compare Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”). Compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”).