bicker

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɪkə/    美 /ˈbɪkɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A skirmish; an encounter. countable
  2. A wooden drinking-cup or other dish. Scotland
    — …the liquors were handed around in great fulness, the ale in large wooden bickers, and the brandy in capacious horns of oxen.
  3. A fight with stones between two parties of boys. Scotland,countable,obsolete
    — Even if he did not take part in the fighting himself, he was no doubt familiar with those who had been taught, ass Darsie Latimer was by Alan Fairford, to "smoke a cobbler, spin a lozen, head a bicker, and hold the bannets" - in other words, to break a window, head a skirmish with stones, and hold the bonnet[…]
  4. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention. countable,uncountable
  5. The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members. countable,uncountable
    — Bicker process varies by club, and there are often concerns of the rights of female students during bicker […]
动词 v.
  1. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
    — They bickered about dinner every evening.
  2. To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
    — Mean time unnumber'd glittering Streamlets play'd, / And hurled every-where their Waters ſheen; / That, as they bicker'd through the ſunny Glade, / Though reſtleſs ſtill themſelves, a lulling Murmur made.
  3. To patter.
  4. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
    — And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, tvvo Ægles had a conflict and bickered together in all their fights: and vvhen the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third came at the very inſtant from the ſunne riſing and chaſed the Victreſſe avvay.

词形变化

bickers present,singular,third-person bickering participle,present bickered participle,past bickered past bickers plural bickers plural

词汇关系

近义词
wrangle
衍生词
bickerer bicker like a married couple bicker like an old married couple bickerment bickersome

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *bikjaną
Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan
Old Dutch *bikken
Middle Dutch bickenbor.
Proto-Germanic *-urōną
Proto-West Germanic *-urōn
Old English -erian
Middle English -eren
Middle English bikeren
English bicker
From 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”).
See also Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”); compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”).
词源 2
From Scots bicker, from Middle English biker. Doublet of beaker.
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