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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : bik-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɪk ər |
Definition of bickering
Origin :- c.1300, "a skirmish," from bicker (v.). Meaning "a verbal wrangle" is from 1570s.
- verb nastily argue
- What use of logic, where there was no bickering about the double-meaning words?
- Extract from : « The Praise of Folly » by Desiderius Erasmus
- And there were the dogs, ever squabbling and bickering, bursting into uproars and creating confusions.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- As it was, the Philosophers contented themselves with bickering.
- Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed
- The bickering and rivalries must have been part of the camouflage.
- Extract from : « A Slave is a Slave » by Henry Beam Piper
- I am tired of war, tired of bickering, tired of watching and being watched.
- Extract from : « Long Live the King » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- They were bickering, an ominous sign for some one yet unknown.
- Extract from : « The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley » by Louis Tracy
- The Mongol sank back to his place among the furs, and the bickering was continued.
- Extract from : « Panther Eye » by Roy J. Snell
- Most of the members of the company were young; there was no bickering.
- Extract from : « Charles Frohman: Manager and Man » by Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
- She hated to hear us arguing and bickering as was generally our way when we met.
- Extract from : « She and I, Volume 1 » by John Conroy Hutcheson
- Einstein was the only thinker in a century gone mad from bickering.
- Extract from : « Hunters Out of Space » by Joseph Everidge Kelleam
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