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]