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. — Wezel
Would the two of you quit bickering?
I'm sick and tired of all this bickering.
ruМеня уже тошнит от всех этих споров. — sharptoothed
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. — Ooneykcall
Tom is bickering with his wife.
deTom zankt sich mit seiner Frau. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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