Bick·er v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bickered p. pr. & vb. n. Bickering.]
  1. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.]
     Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.   --Holland.
  2. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
     Petty things about which men cark and bicker.   --Barrow.
  3. To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.
     They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade.   --Thomson.
  Bick·er·ing, n.
  1. A skirmishing. “Frays and bickerings.”
  2. Altercation; wrangling.
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  bickering
       n : a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, spat, tiff,
            squabble, pettifoggery, fuss]