1
: petulant quarreling : altercation
2
: a sound of or as if of bickering
Synonyms
Examples of bicker in a Sentence
Noun
after a prolonged bicker, they finally managed to find a movie that both of them were interested in seeing
Verb
She is always bickering with her mother.
They bickered about how to decorate the room.
Recent Examples on the Web
M. E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs, 8 July 2024
Meanwhile, Esmeralda bickers with her daughter Jacqueline (Tenley Stitzer), who’s terrified of nuclear war and obsessed with rocker David Lee Roth.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
But, in San Francisco, Cody and May began to bicker.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
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Noun
Better to follow the West German example and achieve full NATO membership for independent Ukraine than to watch essential U.S. support dwindle as Congress bickers and Trump’s reelection odds increase.
—M. E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs, 8 July 2024
Meanwhile, Esmeralda bickers with her daughter Jacqueline (Tenley Stitzer), who’s terrified of nuclear war and obsessed with rocker David Lee Roth.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
Verb
The two also bickered regularly, mostly about the money her mother spent buying things on CVQ and then asking Hanson to return, and complaining about various problems in her life, including her constant pain from stage 4 chronic kidney disease.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
But, in San Francisco, Cody and May began to bicker.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
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“Bicker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bicker. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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