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What does "bicker" mean?

Bicker: To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.] Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together. Holland.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.
  2. 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.
  3. 4.A skirmish; an encounter. [Obs.]
  4. 5.A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [Scot.] Jamieson.
  5. 6.A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.

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