bicker
Speech parts
1. bicker - Noun
2. bicker - Verb
Meaning
A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.
A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.
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I come from haunt of coot and her, I make s sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
The American people await action. They didn't send us here to bicker. They ask us to rise above the merely partisan. "In crucial things, unity"
The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
Being in a girl group, we might bicker a lot about hair dryers or straighteners, but it's never serious. We've been lucky that we get along so much, it's like having three other sisters to party with every day-it's fun!