bicker

/ˈbɪkɚ/

bicker means A surname.

bicker is pronounced /ˈbɪkɚ/.

Etymology

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

name

A surname.

noun

A skirmish; an encounter.
A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.e.g.“Bicker process varies by club, and there are often concerns of the rights of female students during bicker […]” — 2005, Alison Fraser, Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, College Prowler, Inc, →ISBN, page 41:
A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.e.g.“…the liquors were handed around in great fulness, the ale in large wooden bickers, and the brandy in capacious horns of oxen.” — 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 6:

verb

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

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Words closest in meaning

By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.

bickerment 77% match — Argument, bickering. vs bicker →
bickering 76% match — That bickers; argumentative. vs bicker →
skirmishing 74% match — A brief battle; a skirmish. vs bicker →
bickeringly 72% match — With bickering or quarrelling. vs bicker →
bickerer 70% match — One who bickers; one who engages in nagging or trivial arguing. vs bicker →
squabbling 69% match — A petty argument or conflict. vs bicker →
bickersome 68% match — Characterised or marked by bickering vs bicker →
brangling 68% match — A quarrel, a tiff. vs bicker →