bicker
A skirmish; an encounterA skirmish; an encounter.
» I've had enough of your bickering.
Мне надоели ваши склоки.
Meaning
5 senses(countable)A skirmish; an encounter.
стычкаstyčka
(countable, uncountable)A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
(countable, uncountable)The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.
(Scotland)A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
(Scotland, countable, obsolete)A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
- a quarrel about petty points
Examples
34 sentencesI've had enough of your bickering.
ruМне надоели ваши склоки.
Would the two of you quit bickering?
I'm sick and tired of all this bickering.
ruМеня уже тошнит от всех этих споров.
What I want is for everyone to act like adults and stop this bickering.
ruЧего я хочу – так это чтобы все вели себя как взрослые и прекратили препираться.
Tom is bickering with his wife.
deTom zankt sich mit seiner Frau.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attFrom Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Old Dutch *bikken, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan, from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”).
From Scots bicker, from Middle English biker. Doublet of beaker.
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Forms
plural: bickersSynonyms
6 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable