bicker

About 0.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.

   They bickered about dinner every evening.

2. verb To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
3. verb (of rain) To patter.
4. verb To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
5. noun A skirmish; an encounter.
6. noun A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
7. noun A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
8. noun The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.

Similar words

squabble tiff brabble pettifog quibble niggle fuss spat wrangle naggle

Often followed by

and over with about among in of down like

Word family

bickered bickerer bickerers bickering bickers