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词汇 bicker
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Definition of bicker in English:

bicker

verb 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
    1. 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.

Derivatives

  • bickerer

  • noun
    • 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.

Origin

Middle English: of unknown origin.

Rhymes

clicker, dicker, flicker, kicker, liquor, nicker, picker, pricker, shicker, slicker, snicker, sticker, ticker, tricker, vicar, whicker, Wicca, wicker

Definition of bicker in US English:

bicker

verbˈbɪkərˈbikər
[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.
    Synonyms
    squabble, argue
  • 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
    1. 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!

Origin

Middle English: of unknown origin.

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