bicker

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

kiften

harrewarren

kibbelen

Synoniemen

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

👊

Vertalingen

bisticciare

zanken

streiten

çekişmek

chamailler

battibeccare

λογομαχώ

keifen

sich zanken

litigare

τρεμουλιάζω

bisticcio

αψιμαχώ

διαπληκτίζομαι

φιλονικία

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈbɪkɚ/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: bikeren

Verwant aan Oudengels: becca

Verwant aan Nederlands: bikken

Verwant aan Duits: picken

Verwant aan Oudnoors: 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”).