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Definition of bicker in English: bickerverb ˈbɪkəˈbɪkər [no object]1Argue about petty and trivial matters. 为小事争吵,口角 couples who bicker over who gets what from the divorce Example sentencesExamples - But regardless of endless Government and opposition bickering on the matter - or maybe because of it - there is still a huge amount of public apathy on this referendum.
- Additionally, the two sides routinely bicker over the disputed islands, a supposedly oil-rich area.
- Individual directors may disagree, bicker, dispute, squabble, fight or even disobey the chairman.
- He rolled his eyes and turned on the radio effectively stopping any more bickering between us.
- I've counseled both of them separately, but it hasn't seemed to have done much good, as the two of them continue to bicker over things that would normally be shrugged off.
- He said: ‘There was bickering between the two companies.’
- ‘People expect us to do what we can to work together, at least most of the time,’ he added, indicating a bid to stop bickering between rival political factions on the authority.
- The eccentric singer says he has a wonderful relationship with his lover of 11 years, but they love bickering and even argue over who gets to sit where.
- This year there isn't going to be any more squabbling, no more bickering, no more fighting..
- It was sad that the Council had to bicker over who should pay for the work.
- Think of those you love and don't spend what may be your last days bickering about petty things.
- We never got along with one another and were frequently bickering and arguing.
- ‘Enough of the petty bickering you two,’ the blonde woman said playfully.
- Two older men bicker over the rules of their game, in which they pit pet crickets against one another in battle.
- Jerry was left staring at his parents, who continued to bicker and argue.
- They fight and bicker over nothing, over petty cultural differences.
- Brothers are meant to bicker, no matter how old they are.
- In what looks like an average onstage dissection of a relationship, a boyfriend and girlfriend who live together bicker and spar over trivialities.
- It is now a useless exercise to bicker over who is at fault, but the immediate task is to help rebuild damaged infrastructure and help affected residents recover from the floods.
- Put off by bickering between his father and uncle over the family business, Alan went his own way.
Synonyms squabble, argue quarrel, wrangle, fight, fall out, have a disagreement, disagree, dispute, spar, bandy words, have words, be at each other's throats, lock horns informal scrap, argufy, have a tiff, have a spat, spat British informal row, have a row, have a barney archaic altercate, chop logic 2literary (of water) flow or fall with a gentle repetitive noise; patter. 〈诗/文〉(水)潺潺流淌,轻拍 against the glass the rain did beat and bicker Example sentencesExamples - I remember lying on the coping of a stone bridge over the water of Teviot, admiring the green-brown tint of the swift stream bickering over the stones.
- Now the sun lay softly upon it, and a stream bickered through a glade, and now the path lay through thickets, which hid the further woodland from view.
- The sound of rain bickering outside his window was driving him crazy.
- A path led in the foot of it, the water bickered and sang in the midst.
- The sound of water bickering down the winding way of a stream gave life and coolness to the warm silence.
Synonyms pitter-patter, tap, drum, clatter, beat, pound, rattle, throb, pulsate, rat-a-tat, go pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, clack, click-clack, thrum - 2.1 (of a flame or light) flash, gleam, or flicker.
(火、光)闪耀,闪烁 the restless wheels whose flashing spokes bicker and burn Example sentencesExamples - At last the end came; the light bickered for a moment, flared up for the last time, and then went out.
- How the flame bickers, and quivers, and flickers, darting its eager tongues about!
- And a wood-fire bickered on the iron-work fire-back, under whose oak over-mantel Sir Philip sat with us ten minutes, then took himself away into his own sequestered nook of the house.
- In one or two instances there has appeared, when the light was totally excluded, a faint lambent flame bickering over them.
Derivativesnoun If you wait for all the bickerers, backbiters, and foot draggers to come to accord, you'll never get anything done. Example sentencesExamples - The aging couple are a pair of grouchy bickerers.
- There's something about family get-togethers that can turn even the most confident senior executives into quiet underachievers, and seemingly ‘rational’ individuals into petty bickerers.
- From the very beginning, the anchorman ripped into the famous bickerers and was unrelenting throughout.
- This towering lack of interest is quite unusual in the region, because we love to have something to bicker about and what could give us a better cause for bickering than the professional bickerers themselves.
OriginMiddle English: of unknown origin. Rhymesclicker, dicker, flicker, kicker, liquor, nicker, picker, pricker, shicker, slicker, snicker, sticker, ticker, tricker, vicar, whicker, Wicca, wicker Definition of bicker in US English: bickerverbˈbɪkərˈbikər [no object]1Argue about petty and trivial matters. 为小事争吵,口角 whenever the phone rings, they bicker over who must answer it 只要电话铃响,他们就会为谁该去接听而争吵。 the constant bickering between Edgar and his mother Example sentencesExamples - It is now a useless exercise to bicker over who is at fault, but the immediate task is to help rebuild damaged infrastructure and help affected residents recover from the floods.
- ‘People expect us to do what we can to work together, at least most of the time,’ he added, indicating a bid to stop bickering between rival political factions on the authority.
- It was sad that the Council had to bicker over who should pay for the work.
- This year there isn't going to be any more squabbling, no more bickering, no more fighting..
- Two older men bicker over the rules of their game, in which they pit pet crickets against one another in battle.
- I've counseled both of them separately, but it hasn't seemed to have done much good, as the two of them continue to bicker over things that would normally be shrugged off.
- Jerry was left staring at his parents, who continued to bicker and argue.
- They fight and bicker over nothing, over petty cultural differences.
- ‘Enough of the petty bickering you two,’ the blonde woman said playfully.
- Additionally, the two sides routinely bicker over the disputed islands, a supposedly oil-rich area.
- Think of those you love and don't spend what may be your last days bickering about petty things.
- Individual directors may disagree, bicker, dispute, squabble, fight or even disobey the chairman.
- He rolled his eyes and turned on the radio effectively stopping any more bickering between us.
- But regardless of endless Government and opposition bickering on the matter - or maybe because of it - there is still a huge amount of public apathy on this referendum.
- In what looks like an average onstage dissection of a relationship, a boyfriend and girlfriend who live together bicker and spar over trivialities.
- The eccentric singer says he has a wonderful relationship with his lover of 11 years, but they love bickering and even argue over who gets to sit where.
- He said: ‘There was bickering between the two companies.’
- Put off by bickering between his father and uncle over the family business, Alan went his own way.
- Brothers are meant to bicker, no matter how old they are.
- We never got along with one another and were frequently bickering and arguing.
2literary (of water) flow or fall with a gentle repetitive noise; patter. 〈诗/文〉(水)潺潺流淌,轻拍 against the glass the rain did beat and bicker Example sentencesExamples - The sound of water bickering down the winding way of a stream gave life and coolness to the warm silence.
- A path led in the foot of it, the water bickered and sang in the midst.
- I remember lying on the coping of a stone bridge over the water of Teviot, admiring the green-brown tint of the swift stream bickering over the stones.
- The sound of rain bickering outside his window was driving him crazy.
- Now the sun lay softly upon it, and a stream bickered through a glade, and now the path lay through thickets, which hid the further woodland from view.
Synonyms pitter-patter, tap, drum, clatter, beat, pound, rattle, throb, pulsate, rat-a-tat, go pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, clack, click-clack, thrum - 2.1 (of a flame or light) flash, gleam, or flicker.
(火、光)闪耀,闪烁 the restless wheels whose flashing spokes bicker and burn Example sentencesExamples - At last the end came; the light bickered for a moment, flared up for the last time, and then went out.
- And a wood-fire bickered on the iron-work fire-back, under whose oak over-mantel Sir Philip sat with us ten minutes, then took himself away into his own sequestered nook of the house.
- In one or two instances there has appeared, when the light was totally excluded, a faint lambent flame bickering over them.
- How the flame bickers, and quivers, and flickers, darting its eager tongues about!
OriginMiddle English: of unknown origin. |