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bicker

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/ˈbɪkə/ English

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noun

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

verb

  1. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.“They bickered about dinner every evening.”
  2. To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
  3. (of rain) To patter.
  4. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

noun

  1. A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.

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